Word: strongman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some Russians expect Yandarbiyev to be forced out soon by another strongman, possibly the battlefield commander Shamil Basayev, who was named last week to handle any future parleys with Moscow. But if the Chechens stand firm on Dudayev's basic demand--full independence--there will be little to discuss with the Kremlin. In spite of Yeltsin's peace maneuvers, it seems likely he will carry the burden of Chechnya into the election...
...true the Zyuganov program makes obeisance to such democratic principles as unfettered political activity and freedom of opinion, religion and information. But the former Soviet constitution contained similar guarantees, all of which were ignored or defined out of existence. Zyuganov is not the communists' strongman, and if elected, he will be expected to carry out the will of the organization, which may be harsher than it admits to being...
...sucking up to Muammar Gaddafi, who, the official Libyan news agency reports, pledged that Libya will give the Nation of Islam a cool billion to expand its role in electoral politics? (The money has yet to be delivered.) Or his plea to Nigerian human-rights advocates to give strongman General Sani Abacha three more years to fulfill his long-delayed promise to return the country to civilian rule? Moses, Farrakhan explained to the Nigerians, was also a dictator, and there are times when "stern discipline" is needed--presumably including the detention without trial of hundreds of pro-democracy activists...
...tour of Africa, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan visited Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi. Libya's official news agency said the two men discussed the situation of Muslims, blacks and other "oppressed minorities" and how to "unify, mobilize and organize" them in U.S. elections...
...eyes and oral fixation of any young actor in a surrealist movie in recent memory), is one of the children kidnapped, and his adopted older brother, One (Ron Perlman, showing that the giant chin he sported in The Name of the Rose was no mere makeup), a fun fair strongman, attempts to find him. He is helped by Miette (Judith Vittet), the leader of a ragtag group of orphans. Together with the help and hindrance of a legion of freaks, Miette and One attempt to rescue the little brother, defeat evil, and save the world...