Word: populars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...primary and come out with a paltry third-place finish at 17 per cent of the vote. In Wisconsin, Indiana and Maryland in 1964--at the beginning of the cycle of violent ghetto summers--he won between 30 and 43 per cent against stand-in candidates for a popular incumbent President. The fightin' judge won Maryland and Michigan...
...most popular professors in the Music Department," Lynn Chang '75, a teaching assistant in music, said yesterday...
...Rather in Angola the population had already fought an arduous 14 year war against the Portuguese minority regime for the very sake of establishing a socialist state under majority rule. During the transitional period last year, the Portuguese Armed Forces Movement conducted and published monthly polls on the relative popularity of the three liberation movements. While the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) and the (FNLA) each received less than 25 per cent of the electorate's support, the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) consistently pulled over 50 per cent support. UNITA...
...issue, but the amounts relative to the stage of development of the movements were crucial. Because of the severe repression within Luanda at the outbreak of the armed struggle in 1961, MPLA was not able to build the same foothold within Angola as did simultaneous popular movements in Guinea and Mozambique. But the Soviet Union provided such an efficient propaganda machine that it allowed MPLA to glower under the successes of the other two movements. The Angolan party felt less and less compelled to strive inside Angola for what the outside world believed they were already accomplishing, namely the formation...
...consistently chosen some form of association, with the United States. In the gubernatorial elections this coming fall, Ruben Berrios of PIP and Juan Mari Bras of PSP will both run, but they will probably poll together less than 10 per cent of the vote. Governor Hernandez Colon of the Popular Democratic Party will run against Carlos Romero Barcelo, mayor of San Juan and head of the pro-statehood New Progressive Party (PNP). The PNP derives its support mainly from conservatives in the middle and upper classes, though it appeals to all those who want Puerto Rico to cultivate closer ties...