Word: popularized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...popular vote totals on the Democratic side looked like this...
...established Palestinian political factions inside the territories belatedly sought control. In late January these familiar elements started to convert the spontaneous violence into a permanent, organized struggle for control of the territories. Temporarily burying their longtime rivalries, local members of the factions -- Arafat's Fatah as well as the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, local Communists and Islamic fundamentalists -- put together broadly representative "popular committees" in almost every camp and village. The factions organized a loose coordinating body, the Unified National Leadership. "We are running the show, not those outside...
...story. The most important committee is the one for "struggle operations." This supersecret, three- or four-member group decides what specific actions to take, from stone throwing to confrontations with the Israeli army. Once a tactic is approved, word is passed to the camp's or village's popular committee. From there, individual faction leaders mobilize their forces...
...relatively little factional rivalry or outside supervision. Only occasionally does each representative turn to his headquarters for orders. The closest thing to an outside agitator is Mahmoud, whose additional responsibilities as a "regional leader" take him to the rural areas in his sector to help set up new popular committees and coordinate policies...
...more pay would derail plans for economic restructuring. Yet the use of force against strikers would shatter the government's pretensions of openness and democratization, ruining any chance of winning public support for the proposed reforms. The seeming failure of such innovations to produce concrete results and gain popular backing in Poland does not augur well for the future of restructuring efforts elsewhere in the East bloc, including the Soviet Union...