Word: disaffectedness
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The most controversial ouster, however, was the firing of Employment Secretary James Prior, the nemesis of the Tory right wing, who had urged Thatcher to ease up on the trade unions. An extremely popular M.P. who acted as a lightning rod for disaffected Tory backbenchers, Prior had even won praise...
Since it turned to violence in 1968, the ETA has used assassination first to fight the dictatorship of Francisco Franco, then to provoke democratic Spanish authorities into retaliating bloodily and repressing liberties in three of Spain's Basque provinces (see map). The terrorists' plan: to build popular resentment...
The difficulties plaguing West Germany and threatening Schmidt are less a disease than a collection of symptoms. Chief among them is a growing fear of a nuclear confrontation with the Soviets and a conviction among the disaffected (which Moscow skillfully exploits) that the country is merely a pawn in the...
The New Year's Eve killing was a severe additional blow for Forlani's tottering four-party center-left coalition, which has been in office less than three months. The government was already hounded by discontent on all sides as Italy once again descended into a trough of...
Still, in the coming Reagan years, the Democrats may coalesce somewhat. They will enjoy the always exploitable negative advantage: as the party of opposition in a conservative Republican Administration, the Democrats will attract new loyalties, new factions of those disaffected with Reagan's rule. Those out in the cold...