Word: loyalize
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...near Cordoba, some 400 miles north of Buenos Aires, and at the Campo de Mayo army base just outside the capital. Their chief demand: amnesty from prosecution for human rights violations. Alfonsin personally intervened to end < the three-day rebellion at Campo de Mayo. With more than 1,000 loyal government soldiers approaching the base on Sunday, he helicoptered from the presidential palace for a face-to-face talk with Lieut. Colonel Aldo Rico, who led the uprising...
...Tattersall, curator of New York's Museum of Natural History and a longtime friend, knew a different person. "I found him to be a warm, loyal, and kind person, always very supportive and solicitous...
Alfonsin recognized that permitting loyal opposition would safeguard his government more effectively than repression. It is a lesson too often lost on Alfonsin's counterparts in other Third World nations, such as Chilean President Pinochet. The United States, for its part, should realize that support for rightist strongmen who do not tolerate peaceful opposition seldom invites accomplishments as stirring as that of the Argentinian president...
...mutineers, who had been holding about 2,000 loyal government troops at bay at the Campo de Mayo military base, were demanding an amnesty for officers accused of human rights violations under previous military governments...
...raise appeared in congressional paychecks last week, 57 House members and 13 Senators said no to the $12,100 pay hike. Most of the refuseniks donated the money to charity or returned it to the U.S. Treasury. The honorable gesture shocked one of Senator Alan Simpson's most loyal supporters. Says the Wyoming Republican: "When I told my wife I gave the money back, she said, 'You did what...