Word: opinionator
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...public that things are that bad. But casting the oil industry as the chief villain will not necessarily persuade people that the energy crisis is "real" and that they must pay higher prices in order to conserve oil. In fact, the move could have the contrary effect on public opinion...
...conference of island editors and publishers in Dorado last week, Puerto Rico's Governor Carlos Romero Barceló felt confident enough about bedrock pro-U.S. sentiment among Puerto Ricans to call for statehood. Yet the island's core of ardent independentistas insists on dismissing pro-American opinion. It reflects, José maintains, nothing but political "brainwashing...
Until the past few years, some Japanese, out of respect for tradition, more or less shared that charitable view of their society's organized-crime element. At least the public generally tolerated known mobsters within their communities. But no longer. Public opinion has been aroused as never before against the hoods. Premier Takeo Fukuda has called for a crackdown, and across Japan police are unleashing "Operation Bulldozer"-a kind of psy-war harassment, Japanese-style-against the nation's 2,500 yakuza bands and their 110,000 members...
...years. Last year the cops jailed no fewer than 2,000 of Taoka's men for brief periods. "But," admits Masaru Sawada, the policeman who commanded the operation, "kicking them endlessly in the seat of the pants didn't work." The sudden turn-around in public opinion just may. The citizens of Kobe have already held three mass demonstrations, chanting "Down with the yakuza!" Taoka's men, according to police, were stunned by such a massive outburst of hostility after years of public passivity. Some of them have even given up their lives of crime under...
...human rights efforts came in the form of criticism of the organization by such frequent targets of Amnesty charges as the regimes in Eastern Europe, South Africa and Chile. The western governments in particular have been sensitive to Amnesty International's success in effecting a shift in international opinion, a shift that is gradually sapping the international political and economic support without which these notoriously repressive regimes could not long survive...