Word: loyalize
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...last month, the Politburo was reduced to eleven members, compared with 14 only 17 months ago. Contrary to expectations, Andropov did not fill the vacancies. His reluctance to do so suggests that powerful factions may be trying to curb Andropov's power to pack the Politburo with men loyal to him. Says a Western diplomat: "He's not as strong as Brezhnev was. He didn't get his way, or the jobs would have been filled...
...wary that the ideological balance had not shifted to the right, but the new government certainly bore her stamp. Pym and Whitelaw, for example, were replaced by Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Geoffrey Howe and his deputy Leon Brittan, both devoted Thatcherites. Nigel Lawson, who proved abrasive but loyal as Secretary of Energy, took over at Treasury...
...young army officers walked into the general's office in the ornate National Palace and politely asked him to resign. The story has not been confirmed, but it is known that on the morning in question, the palace was hurriedly closed down for a "security exercise" while loyal army troops replaced the palace guard...
...militia forces in Lebanon, Mousa Awad, had joined the rebels. Awad charged that Arafat and his supporters had been "deluded by American schemes." Heavy fighting reportedly broke out at week's end near the ancient city of Baalbek in eastern Lebanon between Awad's men and troops loyal to Arafat. The P.L.O. leader, meanwhile, had left for Rumania...
...Harvard was very loyal," Baranczak says now, adding that the University even found him and his family an apartment to live in for the first month after he finally arrived...