Word: populars
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...inflation, which he saw as the nation's main domestic problem. In contrast, Congress saw the recession-and its attendant unemployment-as the top problem and sought to get money flowing through the economy. Yet the leaderless Democrats were able to override only three vetoes, all on politically popular issues: school lunches, education and health care...
...indoctrination, sabotage, the use of weapons and killer karate. In 1969 he was expelled from the Soviet Union, although Washington believes that this was merely a ruse to disguise his KGB connections. Shortly afterward, Carlos appeared in the Middle East and joined George Habash's militantly anti-Israel Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine...
Thus, at a Washington press conference, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger last week once again warned Moscow to stop its massive support of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (M.P.L.A.) faction in Angola's civil war. Soviet "actions in Angola [are] incompatible with a relaxation of tensions," added Kissinger. Moscow quickly indicated that it was not heeding Kissinger's threat. Declared the government newspaper Izvestia: "Support for the national liberation struggles is an important principle of Soviet foreign policy...
...Popular Contempt. The thwarted attack was a heartening triumph for the army. But it also pointed up the fact that the army has its hands full maintaining internal security without getting involved once again in Argentina's politics. Top army leaders like Commanding General Videla-who could have the presidency virtually for the asking-remember the long, bitter period of military control over Argentina's government from 1966 to 1973. The failure by the military to arrest Argentina's slide into chaos earned it such popular contempt that children even denied that their fathers were soldiers...
General Videla's refusal to seize last week's opportunities to evict Isabel suggests that the military does not plan early action against her. Yet as election time draws nearer, there will be less and less popular support for any attempted coup. As a people, Argentines seem to want to wait out the crisis instead of facing it, as they have before. The departure of Isabel Perón would probably not change that mood, but more and more Argentines are convinced that it must come-in weeks if not days-if the nation is to preserve...