Word: populars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stress on bread-and-butter issues?inflation, taxes and spending?has blurred party distinctions, sometimes beyond the point of recognition. Democrats are sounding like Republicans, or even more so. Specifically, Democrats have been quick to sense, and act on, the popular support for some traditional Republican arguments. "It's beginning to look like everybody is in the same party," says...
MINNESOTA. Democrat Wendell Anderson, 45, was a popular Governor from 1971 to 1976, but then he made the mistake of arranging his own appointment to fill Walter Mondale's vacant Senate seat. It was a self-serving act that angered Minnesotans, and many of them have never forgiven Anderson, even though he apologized in a series of TV ads. At the same time, Anderson's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party has been badly split by conservative Businessman Robert Short's upset primary victory over liberal Congressman Donald Fraser in the race for the Senate seat formerly held...
...Africa, never became fully operational, because of theft, widespread mismanagement and frequent breakdowns in equipment. Zambia, already suffering from falling world copper prices, found it increasingly difficult to get the metal to markets. Skyrocketing prices and continual shortages of such vital goods as soap, matches and cooking oil created popular unrest and encouraged political opposition to Kaunda's less-than-democratic regime...
...mourners listened, Confalonieri mentioned as well the devotion of nearly a million people who had waited in the square to pay their last respects. It was an allusion to the extraordinary outburst of popular feeling for John Paul, both in Rome and around the world, that will have a special impact upon the difficult decision of the assembled Cardinals who next week must choose his successor...
...search for charisma, plus the near-universal insistence on a "pastoral" Pope, concentrates continued attention upon Corrado Ursi, 70, a popular shepherd in Naples whose easygoing air and ample girth inspire repeated comparison to Pope John XXIII. Close behind him in the early discussions is Salvatore Pappalardo, 60, also an effective pastor in Sicily...