Word: strongman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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George Bush drew a line in the sand on Kuwait. Bill Clinton draws the line closer to home. The President, capitalizing on his new reputation as the Arkansas strongman, took a tough stand against an old challenger from The New York Times, columnist William Safire. In his column last Tuesday, Safire had the gall to call the First Lady a "congenital liar" for her obsfucation about "Travelgate," her wildly successful commodities career and some obscure beachfront property in Arkansas...
...KUAN YEW Singapore strongman wins settlement from Int'l Herald Trib for implying he's...litigious...
...Tuesday morning, consensus for a retaliatory attack had formed among the nato allies. But U.S. officials knew they faced a major difficulty. What about Holbrooke and his diplomatic team, which was getting ready to lobby Milosevic? If NATO launched air strikes, would Milosevic, the Serb strongman, react with anger and dismiss Holbrooke's overture? After conferring on the phone, Talbott and Christopher decided that the air campaign could cripple the diplomatic initiative, but that Washington had no choice. "Diplomacy was dead without the force," said a State Department official. By 7 p.m. Washington time, the first warplanes were launched...
...idea of a flower-power liberal. They rose by nepotism, survived by cunning and thrived by doing their leader's most morally questionable will. However quickly Saddam might replace them, though, Iraq's slow strangulation under U.N. economic sanctions since 1990 continues to make life hard for the strongman's subjects. If his relatives' flight was not fatal, it at least displayed publicly some crucial flaws. Said Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Bacon: "It's clearly a vote of no confidence in Saddam Hussein...
...commend White for bringing the monstrous regime in Nigeria into the public eye. Nigeria is going through the worst time in its history. Will strongman Sabi Abacha become another Idi Amin? The answer is yes, if he is allowed to continue in power. The evil called Abacha will eventually go, but the fear is that there are too few good men among Nigeria's political elite. They have turned themselves into a low-priced commodity that can be bought at cut rates. ADEKUNLE AJISEBUTU Fredericton, New Brunswick