Word: populares
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Organized dissent is nonexistent in such a tightly controlled society; in any case, deep-seated nationalism has cemented widespread, largely unquestioning loyalty to the system. The folksy Zhivkov, after nearly 34 years in power, remains remarkably popular, especially with rural Bulgarians, and is believed to be in good health. He has shown no inclination to move off the political stage but has hinted that he may retire within the next two years. No one knows whether that too is a reform that might be pushed back...
Boeing is introducing new versions of its most popular models, the 737 short-range craft and the 747 jumbo jet. The 747-400 will be the world's largest airliner, capable of carrying as many as 660 passengers. Boeing already has 118 orders for the jumbo at about $175 million apiece...
Last week Stephan Krawczyk, 32, a popular antiestablishment folk singer, and his wife Freya Klier, 37, a theater director, left the country rather than face charges of treasonable activities. The singer, once praised by the regime, had become an increasingly strident dissident. Krawczyk was arrested, along with about 120 others, following a Jan. 17 Communist Party rally in East Berlin during which protesters displayed banners calling for greater democracy. A poster quoted Rosa Luxemburg, a Communist heroine whose murder in 1919 was being commemorated that day: FREEDOM IS ALWAYS THE FREEDOM FOR OTHERS TO THINK DIFFERENTLY...
That such measures are necessary underscores the fact that not everyone welcomes the growing role of women in the armed forces. While polls show increasing popular support for women in arms and even for their participation in combat, that last barrier is not likely to fall anytime soon. Congresswoman Beverly Byron, who chairs the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Personnel and Compensation, strongly supports the Pentagon reforms, but she admits, "There is a chauvinistic, male repugnance to women in direct combat that I share." Lorrie Hayward, a Nebraska-born lieutenant stationed in Frankfurt, West Germany, is blunter. Says...
...Kuumba Singers, an a capella singing group with a Valentine's Day repertoire of 47 popular love songs, is selling singing telegrams for $3.50 each, which they will deliver with a carnation. If the price of a song is too steep, the singers will deliver a carnation alone...