Word: populars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Angolan civil war has become an arena of major-power rivalry. The Soviet Union has shipped large quantities of arms and supplies to the former Portuguese colony-everything from armored cars to electric generators-and giant Antonov 22s fly every day to Luanda, the capital of the Soviet-backed Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (M.P.L.A.). Some 3,000 Cubans have been fighting on the leftist side for weeks, and U.S. intelligence now says Havana has increased its force to something close to 5,000 men. In addition, U.S. officials believe Moscow may have 400 of its own advisers...
...Lyndon Baines Johnson internships are the most popular," Francis said, noting that these are the only salaried internships available. Because there is intense competition for these positions, Francis told the assembled students they should apply to their own Congressmen...
Nevertheless, there needs to be a closer interchange between the two disciplines. Politics needs intellectuals because intellectuals are affirmative and concerned people who can help the political process to become, in the popular terminology, "responsive." Intellectuals need politics both institutionally and because the process concentrates the intellectual mind on the business and challenge of living in society...
...contrary to the State Department's allegations, the MPLA is by no means a tool of Soviet diplomacy. Unlike FNLA and UNITA--both tribally based organizations--the MPLA's real concerns are for socialist development in Angola. The MPLA has already built broadly based popular institutions in the areas under its control, bringing in its wake education, health care, and participatory democracy...
...around that: you want to skate, you gotta have skates; you want to ski, you gotta have skis; you want to swim, you gotta have a pool; and on it goes. (All of which is not to mention the financial and political problems involved in those ever-popular jaunts to Third World countries near the Equator...