Word: populars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nonetheless, the Syrian President and the P.L.O. leader have already moved to patch up relations. TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn learned in Damascus that the two men met in the Syrian capital last week and agreed that hard-line "rejectionist" elements in the Palestinian movement -notably George Habash's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine -must be eliminated to ensure peace...
...political affairs last week. In a television interview, he called for "a government of national unity" to lead the country through its latest economic crisis. Macmillan, now 82, recalled the wartime coalition of parties under Winston Churchill. Such a government, the former Tory leader argued, would have enough popular support to take the tough measures necessary to stave off economic collapse. Macmillan declined to name any prospective leader for such a government, but, he added, "somebody will come along, of course...
...left does not stop fighting a past that no longer exists and a part of the right does not stop crying over a past that will not return." Still, the Premier might succeed in his cautious program for making Spain more liberal; he is strongly backed by the popular Juan Carlos and there is a widespread desire for change...
...prices and suspended a law preventing financially distressed companies from laying off workers. Leftists charge that the program goes too far and poses a "serious threat" to workers' interests; some businessmen argue that the program is not bold enough. Until a referendum gives him something approaching a popular mandate, Suárez will probably have to continue with a brand of tightrope policies that seem to satisfy neither left nor right...
...paintings and drawings by Andrew Wyeth that opened last week at New York's Metropolitan Museum is bound to be successful. That, in the Met's eyes, means so jammed with people that the art will be virtually invisible. At 59, Wyeth is the most popular, perhaps the only popular "serious" artist in America. For the past 20 years his elaborately finished tempera paintings of the landscapes and neighbors around his winter farm in Pennsylvania and his summer house in Maine have become indistinguishable, for an enormous public, from a dream of vanished moral rectitude. Every split clapboard...