Word: populares
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...election that will clear the way for more free trade worldwide, Canadian voters last week decided to return Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and his Progressive Conservative Party to power. The final results showed the Progressive Conservatives getting 43 percent of the popular vote and 170 seats in the House of Commons, followed by the Liberal Party with 31.9 percent and 82 seats and the left-leaning New Democrats with 20.4 percent and 43 seats...
Trapped between the leadership in Moscow and a broad-based popular movement at home, the Armenian Communist Party has tried to equivocate. In June its newly elected first secretary, Soren Arutyunyan, along with the Armenian Supreme Soviet, defied Moscow's wishes by petitioning the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R. to reopen the Nagorno-Karabakh question. (The enclave was assigned to Azerbaijan by Joseph Stalin in 1923.) But Arutyunyan also declared that the Yerevan demonstrators were "not supported by the broad masses." In reply, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev chided an Armenian delegation that had come to the Kremlin to plead...
...Armenian organizations gain sophistication, popular resentment is growing at Moscow's apparent disdain for nationalist grievances. While accounts of Stalin's crimes have been splashed across the pages of leading Soviet newspapers, the Armenian crisis has virtually been ignored. Pravda has given only vague accounts of the Yerevan demonstrations; when articles have appeared, correspondents have condemned the protests as the work of "corrupt elements" and "extremists." Says Ter-Petrossian: "What we are doing is what Gorbachev says he wants: people participating in government decisions." Adds another Armenian who regularly attends the Theater Square meetings: "He should be proud...
...lead, major airlines threw out their so-called junk fares, which offered discounts on tickets purchased three to seven days in advance. Since most last-minute flyers are business travelers, few vacationers would be affected. But at the same time, Continental was tinkering with its MaxSaver fares, the popular, deep-discount tickets that must be bought two weeks in advance and require a Saturday-night stay. Starting this week, most MaxSaver fares will increase between $10 and $20 each...
Toomas Leito, editor of the Estonian Party daily Rahva Haal, says the reforms give "more power to the Supreme Soviet than should be the case under a federal system." Agrees Lembit Koik, a leader of the quasi-official Popular Front of Estonia: "We want a Soviet Union that is really a union of republics, not indivisible Holy Russia...