Word: populars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Watson said that the pardon was an "attempt to achieve popular support" for Carlos's government...
...said that to gain popular support, the government must reform, but the government is caught between a right-wing faction of the leadership and the majority of the Spanish people, who want democracy...
That dialectic has made Brown, for the moment at least, the most popular Governor in California history. By a margin of more than 7 to 1, voters polled recently by Mervin Field approved his performance - a level of support well above Ronald Reagan's at his peak. Brown was interviewed by TIME Managing Editor Henry Grunwald and Los Angeles Bureau Chief Jess Cook in Los Angeles at El Adobe, an unpretentious restaurant featuring the Jerry Brown special (arroz con polio). His thoughts on a variety of topics...
...Franco's real entry onto the Spanish scene came in July, 1936, when as the commander of the Army of Africa he led the "nationalist" rebel forces in their campaign to overthrow the legitimately elected Popular Front government of the Second Republic. In a bloody three-year conflict, Franco's armies, aided crucially by Hitler's Germany and Mussolini's Italy, overcame the underequipped soldiers of Republican Spain. Troops chanting the slogan "Long live Death" destroyed the hopes of workers and peasants for a transformed Spain...
...uses his character Spiderman, one of his most popular heroes, as an illustration of his approach. "He's got super powers, and he fights crooks; he's just like anybody else. So we gave him an aunt who's always dying of a heart attack; he has all these personal problems; he's sort of a nebbish...