Word: populars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that time, the outcome may well have been decided on the battlefield-most probably in a victory by the Soviet-backed Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (M.P.L.A.). After routing F.N.L.A. forces in the north, the M.P.L.A., led by Cubans and backed by Soviet tanks and advisers, launched a three-pronged assault in southern Angola. Last week the attack force was reported within 100 miles or less of its objectives: Lobito, Angola's biggest port; Huambo, provisional capital of the F.N.L.A.-UNITA government; and Silva Pôrto, UNlTA's headquarters...
...Joanie Caucus, Ginny's roommate and perhaps Trudeau's most popular character. A lumpy, fortyish housewife, Joanie enrolls in law school after walking out on her husband and children: "He put his arm around me and said, 'My wife. I think I'll keep her.' I broke his nose...
Until he does, Doonesbury seems likely to be the strip of the '70s, if any strips survive. Rising prices and chronic shortages of newsprint have driven editors to drop marginally popular panels and shrink survivors to the size of chewing-gum wrappers. That crunch may eventually catch up with Doonesbury, which needs plenty of space for its extended dialogues. A less immediate danger is that Doonesbury's following may shed the passive disillusionment and cynicism that Trudeau satisfies so wittily. Already some of Doonesbury's younger followers are finding the strip a bit bland and irrelevant...
...along with various restaurants, a coffee plantation and interests in newspapers and radio-TV stations. He is known to have sunk more than $2 million into a holding company called San Cristóbal S.A., a chief interest of Former President José ("Pepe") Figueres, a popular figure who is Vesco's leading backer in Costa Rica...
...mounted atop each corner. He rarely ventures outside without burly bodyguards, who often tote submachine guns. Recently a Vesco entourage in a six-car caravan made a trip to the coastal city of Limón, whose officials were courting a Vesco investment. After entering the driveway of a popular country restaurant, the convoy suddenly pulled out and sped away. Someone had spotted the American ambassador's car parked out front...