Word: loyalize
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...where the government has been trying to fuse a national army by integrating the two rival guerrilla forces that fought for independence as the Patriotic Front: the ZANLA forces that were led by Mugabe and are composed mostly of Shona tribesmen; and the ZIPRA guerrillas, mostly Ndebele, who remain loyal to Joshua Nkomo. As last week's clashes intensified, ZIPRA and ZANLA units grabbed weapons from the camp's armory and summoned other former guerrillas to come help them. The fighting quickly spread to other nearby army bases and eventually involved as many as 10,000 troops...
...director of the Godfather films and Apocalypse Now, had invited 100 journalists to inspect the most elaborate toy a movie-mad boy could hope to own: Zoetrope Studios, the 10½-acre Hollywood production lot he bought early in 1980 to make his own films and those of fiercely loyal independent moviemakers he has invited to join him. This, he hoped, would be the studio of the future, an artistic Arcadia with nine sound stages, 34 editing rooms and newfangled videotape-and film-editing technology designed to allow films to be shot and completed in five weeks, half the normal...
...departure. During this time Mrs. Kennedy, along with Larry O'Brien and Dave Powers, remained at the side of the casket. To suggest that anyone could have taken the body of the President out of the coffin with Mrs. Kennedy and two of his closest and most loyal friends a few feet away is illogical. Aboard Air Force One it would have been impossible...
...filling memos and churning gossip at a frightening pace, appointments filtering out somewhat less frequently. Yet when January 20 rolled around, with all the frenzy of freed hostages and an inauguration, only a few of the hundreds of succabinet posts in various government departments had been parceled out to loyal Reaganites; most slots remained, for the time being, in the hands of previous occupants, or just empty. All in all, not exactly according to plan. Or, as the previously mentioned former aide wryly put it: "We didn't hit the ground running...
...scheduled. He ate dinner, waited his turn behind Senator John Glenn and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to give his speech, which was nice but not notable, and then slipped out so that he would not paralyze the after-dinner festivities. Nobody was dazzled, but even the loyal opposition felt a little warmth toward the man for displaying such natural dignity...