Word: populars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would have foreseen such an outcome? The state of emergency she had declared, for all its autocratic undertones, seemed popular, especially after two years of good harvests. No one dreamed that the battered and usually incarcerated opposition could mount a successful campaign against her. Naturally, Mrs. Gandhi felt that her victory was inevitable. The Congress party not only could rely on huge financial resources, but it also controlled the press and television...
...forced into exile in Angola, then adopted by Portugal's secret police to fight Angolan liberation groups. Following Lisbon's 1974 revolution, which led to the dismantling of Portugal's African empire, the Katangese were virtually forced to side with Agos-tinho Neto's Marxist Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola in the Angolan civil war. Admiral Rosa Coutinho, the left-leaning Portuguese high commissioner of the colony, offered them a subsidy if they would serve under Neto-and threatened to hand them over to Mobutu if they refused...
...debate now roiling many academic institutions. With the tuition cost of a private liberal arts education soaring to as high as $5,500 a year, colleges are finding it increasingly difficult to justify the expense-particularly since many of their graduates cannot find jobs. Practical "vocational" programs have become popular. Just last year T.H. Bell, then U.S. Commissioner of Education, declared, "It is our duty to provide our students with salable skills...
...proposal for direct voting that has the most support was devised by Indiana Senator Birch Bayh. He suggests that if no candidate received more than 40% of the popular vote, a runoff be held between the two top vote getters...
...other regions of Zaïre, which has some 200 tribes. A corrupt dictator, Mobutu is unpopular-even hated-in much of the country. In the wild northeast, for example, he is accused of being responsible for ordering the murder in 1961 of Patrice Lumumba, the region's popular leftist martyr. This rancor has reportedly been translated into aid and recruits for guerrillas. How his enemies will exploit Mobutu's troubles remains to be seen-when the quagmire dries and fighting resumes...