Word: popularizer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From his bungalow at Neauphle-le-Chateau outside Paris, the Ayatullah had been sending home a steady stream of Elamiehs, messages summoning the faithful to bring down the monarchy in favor of what he has somewhat vaguely termed an Islamic republic. Much of the population heeded Khomeini. It was popular uprisings in his name that forced the hated Shah to take a vacation that might well extend to exile, and left the government in the uncertain hands of Prime Minister Shahpour Bakhtiar. Iron-willed, giving little hint of compromise, Khomeini has rejected the Bakhtiar government and damned it as illegal...
Even if Iran gets a new government that has both popular support and Khomeini's blessing, the troubles plaguing the country will not vanish overnight. As one U.S. specialist noted: "The Shah left, but he didn't take the problems of the country with him." The best estimates are that it will take two months to get the oilfields back to export production lev el even if work starts at once. Meanwhile, the country has a paralyzed economy and shattered loan credibility. Except for two to three dozen firms, all of the country's 600 major industries have been shut...
Despite its harshness in suppressing dissent, the Bakr government appears to be popular with most Iraqis. Education and medical care are free to all, and most of the population has shared in the present prosperity. Of all the recent social changes, none is more remarkable than the liberation of Iraqi women. Today they constitute one-third of the country's professional class and 26% of its industrial work force. Unlike their sisters in many other Arab states, they can own land, inherit property and, if divorced, receive alimony...
...Christian Democrats and the Communists together represent about 70% of the popular vote. If they fail to find a face-saving compromise, the result could be a general election well in advance of the one scheduled for 1981. Both major parties have publicly declared that they dislike this prospect; privately they may want it. The Christian Democrats, who made encouraging gains in last year's local polling, hope that they could do even better. For their part, the Communists may reckon that an election soon would be preferable to one in 1981, when their popularity might have declined even...
...logo is the same, and so is the commitment to pictures. Occasionally it flashes the informality and common touch of its popular predecessor. But in many respects the new Look, back this week after seven years, is a magazine with a split personality. As if to emphasize the fact, the first issue is being sold under two different covers. Look East, distributed as far as the Rockies, features the late Nelson Rockefeller, while Patricia Hearst smiles from the cover of Look West...