Word: populars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dedicated to social reform and greater state autonomy, held a commanding majority. The assembly's tenure was due to expire March 21, and Mrs. Gandhi did not want to extend its life. Apparently she feared that any election-state or national-during the emergency might turn into a popular referendum on her authoritarian rule...
...military and economic domination. In the recent past, the U.S. has attempted to bomb Indochinese anticolonialists into submission and has continuously supported and invested in overtly totalitarian regimes like Chile, South Korea, and Iran, where torture, censorship and political repression are the everyday instruments of government. Now, as popular consciousness is increasingly sensitive to the gap between American rhetoric and reality, Moynihan's efforts to create a new demonology are of crucial importance in restoring domestic support for a revived counterrevolutionary foreign policy...
Moynihan has claimed that "the United Nations is a place where lies are told." But in his charge that the real issue in Angola is the threat of Soviet domination in Southern Africa, Moynihan himself is party to a bold enough lie. Not only is the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola avowedly opposed to Soviet bases on their territory, but massive Soviet involvement there came only in response to prior American intervention to prevent leftist victory...
Singer/pianist Bobby short opens up the learning From Performers' second semester programming with a two-hour seminar on the tradition of the American popular song style, Monday, February 16, at 8 p.m. in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room...
...vital tool. The restoration of that consensus necessitates what Kissinger has aptly termed a "legitimizing principle of social repression": an ideological justification which would ensure the support of the American people and Congress for an aggressive policy abroad. The language of realpolitik offers a poor basis for popular support for a corporate ideology. Hence, modern myths have been a mixture of destiny and demonology: the British "white man's burden" and the French "Mission Civilizatrice," for example...