Word: populars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...addition, many Ford-bound delegates really prefer Reagan. They are Republican right-wingers who have been assigned by local party leaders to vote for the President because he won a proportion of their state's popular vote in the primaries. If the voting at the Kansas City convention goes to a second ballot, a number of Ford's 18 Vermont delegates would shift, and all but two of his 25 North Carolina delegates would jump to Reagan...
...were on flat-bed trailer trucks heading back toward the border; Red Crescent ambulances raced by with wounded in the back. Scores of Russian T-62 tanks and artillery were dug in on ridges. Every so often the troops would turn up their transistor radios, and the sounds of popular Arabic songs brought smiles to tough expressions. The litter of empty shell casings stacked neatly by buildings showed that, when there had been fighting, it had been fierce, quick, terrible...
...ousted by his fellow officers in a bloodless coup in September 1974. Another is that several key aides of the exiled right-wing general are involved in Eanes' campaign, which has been endorsed by the country's three largest parties: Mário Scares' Socialists, the Popular Democrats and the conservative Center Social Democrats...
...week. "A bit of bad blood is bound to persist." That is quite an understatement. Nearly four months after it won the ferocious civil war for control of Angola, with the vital help of 12,000 Cuban soldiers and $300 million in Soviet military aid, Agostinho Neto's Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) is still having trouble consolidating its control over the country, which is roughly twice the size of France. The cities, the Atlantic coastline and most of the central interior are secure, reports TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief Lee Griggs, who flew to Luanda last...
Frequent Forays. The prime offender, however, is seen to be Justice Blackmun, a slow writer and ponderous thinker, who not only weighs his opinions meticulously but writes them out in longhand. An extremely effective and popular public speaker, Blackmun has made frequent forays on the creamed chicken circuit all over the country this spring. Before tackling the court's work this week, he was off to Emory University in Georgia to accept yet another honorary degree. While the six other full-term Justices on the court have each published between ten and 13 majority opinions, Marshall has announced only...