Word: popular
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...need for economic development and nuclear power, and backing the construction of a Trident submarine base?opposed by the environmentalists?on Puget Sound. She had plenty of energy, an air of bluff honesty that appealed to independents, and a new face. Startling the experts, she defeated Seattle's popular but overconfident Mayor Wes Uhlman, 42, in the primary and then beat Republican John Spellman, 50, the top official in Seattle's King County...
...feast, Sadat prayed at Jerusalem's Al Aqsa mosque.) Sadat's office is inundated with pledges of support from around the country. In the streets of Cairo, in restaurants and hotels, Egyptians speak openly and warmly about his quest for peace. Sadat's mission is popular, and he knows it. The President, moreover, remains convinced that other Arab leaders will see the light. Tahsin Bashir, Egyptian Ambassador to the Arab League, last week told an audience at the American University in Cairo: 'Other forces in the Arab world will gradually, perhaps reluctantly, also take risks...
John Vorster was right about that. Fulfilling the Prime Minister's euphoric election-night prediction, his National Party won 64.8% of the popular vote and 134 of the 165 seats in the new Parliament, an increase of 17. The moderately liberal Progressive Federal Party, supported by many English-speaking South Africans, doubled its previous support (to 16.7% of the vote), but elected only 17 members to the new Parliament. The other two English opposition groups, the conservative South African Party (three seats) and the Natal-based New Republic Party (ten seats) were virtually wiped out. So was a right...
Bishop Muzorewa, still regarded as the most popular black leader inside Rhodesia, denounced the military operations as "abhorrent massacres" that would "adversely prejudice" any talks with Smith. Proclaiming a week of mourning, the bishop declared that the dead are "mostly men, women and children who fled from the land of their birth to seek asylum." He said there could be no negotiations during the mourning period and boycotted last week's talks. Sithole, who was traveling in the U.S. to drum up support for his African National Council, also condemned the raids...
Smith offered no explanation of the timing of the raids. If their purpose was to bolster the bargaining position of Rhodesia's whites, the Prime Minister possibly miscalculated. Muzorewa, the popular moderate, was forced to rally to the defense of Mugabe, the hardliner. Said the bishop: "Rhodesian whites, and I include the Prime Minister, simply don't realize the depth of feeling aroused among the Africans by the two attacks." Fearing that any association with Smith would discredit them among Rhodesia's blacks, Muzorewa and Sithole might want to reconsider any transfer of power to which...