Word: populars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With Carter far from popular, G.O.P. presidential hopefuls are using the 1978 campaign season as a kind of preliminary heat to 1980. The consensus among political experts is that Ronald Reagan, despite his 67 years and his many political scars, is out ahead. He plans 75 appearances in 25 states before the November election-a crushing schedule for any politician at any time of life. Reagan was trying to heal party wounds last week when he met with Gerald Ford, John Connally and other G.O.P. heavyweights at functions in Houston and Dallas. For the first time since their bitter primary...
...ambassador to the U.S., Ardeshir Zahedi, to open a dialogue with dissident mullahs. Sharif-Emami was expected to call this week on Ayatullah Sharietmadari, 76, the religious teacher who is regarded as the most powerful spokesman for the Shi'ite opposition. In addition, Ayatullah Khomeini, 80, a popular mullah exiled in Iraq since 1963, might be permitted to return home if he disavows the overthrow of the Shah...
...TROOPS OF Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza Debayle's National Guard attempt to pound the widespread popular opposition to his rule into submission, the time has come for the United States government to re-examine its relations with the Somoza regime...
None of Tillie Olsen's work was published until 1962, when she was 49 years old, and when Tell Me A Riddle, a collection of stories, came out. Tell Me A Riddle was a critical, but not a popular, success; it was to be twelve more years before Olsen published Yonnondio: From the Thirties...
...truck carrying some of the sets up to Boston was fire-bombed by Molotov-happy kids, delaying the opening by a full week), but the special problem of transferring a beloved movie--a cult film, particularly in Cambridge, where it ran for five and a half years--into a popular musical. DeBroca's fable of lovable loonies running rampant in an abandoned French town during World War I has a dedicated following, may of whom aren't going to like the jazzed-up musical version, complete with German and America (not British) trenches rising from the orchestra pit, no matter...