Word: chieftain
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...sweet, but necessary and expected, just like North and South Dakota on Tuesday. His greater triumph was a secret one, in a private struggle to settle his fate as it rests in the hands of his party allies. Hidden somewhere, on their desks or in their dreams, every Republican chieftain has a list. They've had them ever since Dole began losing primaries, or winning with two-thirds of his party voting against him. They rank the men who could come to the rescue if the whole nominating process melts down and no one has a majority of delegates going...
Just three days before the arrest of Cali chieftain Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela in Colombia, Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo discussed his nation's involvement in the drug war with a group of TIME journalists. Meeting with Zedillo in his office at the Los Pinos presidential residence were managing editor James R. Gaines, editor at large Karsten Prager and Latin American bureau chief Laura Lopez...
...family refuse to talk about the motivation behind it. They will not even hint at who might be responsible. But it is widely known by police and others in Belfast that Teer was in the backseat of a stolen car that rammed an auto belonging to an I.R.A. chieftain. For Teer, the arbitrary sentence handed down by an I.R.A. kangaroo court for this careless act of joyriding has resulted in a 5-in. steel pin to hold his shattered left leg together and months of physical therapy...
Talabani's party is made up mainly of urban intellectuals and leftists, while Barzani, 48, is a parochial tribal chieftain wary of the West whose political base remains in the countryside. Over the years he has favored negotiation with Baghdad, while the 62-year-old Talabani wants confrontation. Talabani shares the dream of other Kurds of an independent Kurdistan that includes parts of Iraq, Iran and Turkey. When U.S. officials visit Talabani, he regularly serves them turkey for dinner so they will not miss the message that he wants to nibble at his neighbor...
Listening to this timeless music, you can almost believe that a song could save the world. It's tempting to offer each Chieftain the toast from Mo Ghile Mear--"So wish him strength and length of days"--but these old boyos already have both...