Word: populars
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THAT DOESN'T SEEM ALTOGETHER right to me. Look at the platform, written by Carter's people and approved by the candidate. It commits the nation to a foreign policy more progressive than anything seen since the international popular front of democratic forces in World War II. It says that we can no longer intervene to preserve the status quo in most of the world where, as Frank Church put it, there is no status quo; that means in Angola, Chile, and Indochina. Charter's closest advisers of foreign affairs, like Zbigniew Brzezinski and George Ball, point to the primacy...
...submachine guns, rifles, a Beretta pistol and dynamite. Passengers and crew were herded into a seldom-used terminal; later, Israelis were separated from the others when one of the terrorists barked in English, "Israelis to the right." Via Radio Uganda, the skyjackers proclaimed that they were members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Marxist, zealously anti-Israel fedayeen group led by Dr. George Habash. But the Popular Front's Beirut headquarters disowned them, and the 21-nation Arab League, at its Cairo meeting, condemned them...
...High. Berlinguer, his prestige buoyed by the Communist advance in last month's election (TIME, July 5), also spurned Soviet-style rule for Italy. "The models of socialist society followed in Eastern Europe," he asserted bluntly, "do not correspond to the peculiar conditions and orientations of the broad popular masses in the West." He insisted that Italian Communism was committed to economic development in both the public and private sectors. Such heresies so infuriated a Soviet journalist watching the proceedings on closed-circuit TV that he turned to Nickel and tagged Berlinguer with the ultimate Communist insult. "A social...
...left candidate Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho (16.5%), seriously ailing Premier Jose Pinheiro de Azevedo (14.4%) and the Communist standard-bearer Octavio Pato (7.6%). Although Eanes' victory was less a personal triumph than a vote of confidence in the three non-Communist parties that backed him-the Socialists, Popular Democrats and conservative Center Social Democrats-the general is expected to wield his new authority forcefully...
Whatever the makeup of the Cabinet, it will have difficulty upholding Portugal's new constitution, which calls for an advanced form of socialism with worker control of factories, state planning and expropriation of the country's principal means of production. The Popular Democrats have serious reservations about this constitution, and the Center Social Democrats actually voted against...