Word: loyalize
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...thought we had his character analysis correct down to the last petty neurosis. After all, he seemed a textbook case of rabidly loyal third world dictator. Why, his sense of loyalty seemed so profound that his vicious jackboot secret police force were nicknamed after a breed of dog: dobermans. They dressed in black. A nice touch...
...when Andrew Young got up to speak to the San Francisco convention about the platform, he was booed by younger delegates loyal to Jackson. At a black caucus, summoned to calm black delegates' angers, Coretta King was booed when she spoke for Young. "That was yesterday," some delegates called up to her. "What have you done for us today?" Young slipped out the back door. Only when Jackson arrived and made an emotional plea for unity did all those onstage lock arms and sing We Shall Overcome. Jackson rebuked his followers: "When I think about the roads I've walked...
...will probably insist that a transitional government be in place before he departs and that the Defense Forces remain intact. Although the U.S. might be willing to give him those assurances, Administration officials face another hurdle: Noriega does not trust them. "The way he sees it, he was loyal to the U.S. for many years. After all that, he was betrayed," says a former Panamanian official. In fact, despite the feelers Noriega has sent to the State Department and the Pentagon, he continues to vow publicly that "the only way this general is leaving is $ dead." Meanwhile, the majority...
Like Reagan, Bush is unswervingly loyal to the people around him, and like Reagan, he could be hurt by that double-edged trait. Bush shied away from getting rid of a divisive member of his vice-presidential staff until Fuller came along as his new chief and forced the issue in 1985. For the past 20 months, Donald Gregg, Bush's national security adviser, has been under fire for allegedly facilitating covert support for the contras, yet Bush has refused to dismiss him, even as his candidacy has been tainted by the Iran- contra scandal...
...Angry dock workers moved huge blockades across the entrance to their port near the Panama Canal to fight off an army takeover by troops loyal to Noriega...