Word: strongman
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...debris. Bodies have rotted. Hundreds of thousands of people are homeless. Our dead are scattered in the streets. Hunger and thirst are killing our remaining children, women and old men." Only reluctantly did the guerrillas agree at week's end to a cease-fire arranged by Sudanese Strongman Jaafar Numeiry and pressed by Arab leaders meeting in Cairo (see following story). The truce had hardly taken effect before Numeiry and other Arab leaders were accusing Hussein of breaking...
Three Arab nations boycotted Nasser's summit outright: Morocco, Algeria and Iraq. Morocco's King Hassan probably stayed away simply to avoid entanglement in a faraway fight. The other two did so out of sympathy with the guerrillas. Libya's youthful new strongman, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, who has remained outwardly loyal to Nasser, attended the conference-but only after siding strongly with the Palestinians and offering to send Libyan troops into the fight on the commandos' side. Nothing ever came of that, but there is speculation that Gaddafi, who came to power last year...
...crucial question for the Corporation will be whether to install a strong, outspoken leader like Yale's Kingman Brewster, or a more "corporate" figure. It is said that the last strongman President. Pusey's predecessor James L. Conant, was often at odds with the Corporation...
...Indochina, Chou played host to a unity conference of all Indochinese Communists, and pledged Chinese support until the war is won. Soviet-Japanese collaboration in the development of Siberia gave Chou a chance to play on North Korean fears of revitalized and expanding Japan. As a result, North Korea Strongman Kim Il Sung has recognized Sihanouk's regime and promised...
Nasser and leaders from six other Arab nations had just concluded a three-day summit in Tripoli that had served as a great pep rally for new efforts against Israel. They discussed the lack of action on the eastern (Syria-Jordan) front, and Libya's new strongman, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, pointedly criticized "the absence from the battle of some Arab forces." Even as the Arab leaders conferred, the Syrian army, as if stung by the criticism, started strong attacks against Israel. Massed artillery began the offensive with bombardment of Israeli positions. Under the cover of the barrage, Syrian tanks...