Word: populars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...miles north of Oporto, Communists shot at attacking conservative militants, wounding several. Two days later, troops dispatched to protect Communist headquarters there opened fire and killed two people, a 34-year-old rightist militant and a 19-year-old male nurse named Luis Barroso, a member of the centrist Popular Democrats. Furious, hundreds of anti-Communists broke through an infantry cordon and ransacked the building...
...that Azorians are not only patronized by the mainland Portuguese as dumb country cousins, but also pay higher taxes and higher prices than the "continentals," and 2) that the Lisbon government is drifting too far to the left. In last April's election, the Azores gave the centrist Popular Democratic Party 60% of the vote, the Socialists 25% and the Communists less than...
...Marxist-oriented Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (M.P.L.A.), the F.N.L.A.'s chief rival, commands 23,000 regulars and perhaps 10,000 armed civilians, who have been dubbed "Street Soviets" by other movements. The M.P.L.A. has reinforced its strength with Soviet and Czech arms. Headed by Agostinho Neto, 52, the M.P.L.A. draws most of its support in the cities and from the Kimbundu tribe of north-central Angola...
Some universities hold short versions of alumni colleges. Northwestern, for example, offers one-day programs geared to specific subjects. Lectures include "Cultural Life in the Soviet Union" and "Where Have All Our Heroes Gone?" They have been so popular that Northwestern is thinking of starting a five-day college next year...
...time being, she has very little reason to pity herself. At 35, she is one of the most popular journalists in the country, and her book appears likely to spend at least a few weeks on the best-seller list. Tanned, blonde and prosperous-looking, she has regained her sardonic self-assurance. The scars from the acne that plagued her at CBS have disappeared as completely as the awkward uneasiness that characterized her on-the-air personality...