Word: strongman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...midst of Indonesia's economic free fall last week, BILL CLINTON, in New York City for a fund raiser, delayed Air Force One's takeoff from a fog-shrouded Kennedy Airport to read the riot act to Indonesia's strongman, SUHARTO. The two leaders spent what must have been an uncomfortable 25 minutes on the phone as translators relayed Clinton's demand that Suharto immediately implement an International Monetary Fund austerity program that Indonesia agreed to last October. Earlier, Suharto had seemed oblivious to the crisis when he went on television to announce a budget woven of pure fantasy, thereby...
Suharto's Fantasy Island TIME magazine reports that President Clinton, in a personal phone call to Indonsia?s President Suharto, demanded that the aging strongman implement IMF reforms. Economic chaos in the Asian nation could lead to a military coup...
...midst of Indonesia?s economic free fall last week, Bill Clinton, in New York City for a fundraiser, delayed Air Force One?s takeoff from a fog-shrouded Kennedy Airport to read the riot act to Indonesia?s strongman, Suharto...
...international shipping community prefers that the U.S. continue to play a role in running the canal. But even Panamanians who cheered the 1989 U.S. invasion that overthrew strongman General Manuel Antonio Noriega consider the completed handover a point of national pride. The best those in favor of a continued U.S. presence can hope for is a successful conclusion to current talks aimed at establishing a multinational antinarcotics center at what is now Howard Air Force Base. Those talks, however, are foundering over the issue of who would control the U.S. troops that would provide logistical support for the center...
Hankering for a hot page-turner in the new year? Check out Escape to Hell, a tour de force without remorse, penned originally in Arabic by Libyan strongman and litterateur MUAMMAR GADDAFI. The volume's 20-page preface, by PIERRE SALINGER, the former J.F.K. press secretary and international oddball, presents Gaddafi as a multifaceted Arab and Islamic figure too long typecast as a one-dimensional thug in the West. The book delivers an eclectic mix of Gaddafi essays and short stories. You can curl up with The Suicide of the Astronaut, the dictator's winsome tale of a space traveler...