Word: populars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...outright assassination," protested Puerto Rican Novelist Pedro Juan Soto, father of one of the victims. "It was a setup that was meant to be a lesson to others," declared Senator Miguel Hernández Agosto, head of the island's once ruling Popular Democratic Party. "The Governor planned it all. It was part of a systematic plan to wipe us out," charged Socialist Leader Juan Mari Bras...
...strife afflicting southern Africa, the little republic is something of an oddity. It is a place where a benign and popular government reigns over a modest society that is notably free of corruption, has never fought a war with its neighbors, never held a political prisoner, and does not bother to arm its police. Its currency is stable and its economy remarkably robust. It has a multiparty parliamentary system and is preparing to hold its fourth general election since it attained independence from Britain in 1966. The country is Botswana, and its state of health is all the more remarkable...
...closely watched in Bolivia and Peru, which also plan elections to replace military juntas. For a time, it seemed the vote in Ecuador might never take place. Fearing that Roldós, a protégé of Asaad Bucaram, an abrasive populist who founded the Concentration of Popular Forces Party (C.F.P.), would follow up his first-place finish in last summer's preliminary balloting with a victory, the military men who have ruled Ecuador since 1972 delayed the runoff for more than six months. That allowed the conservatives who opposed Roldós to mount a scare campaign...
...science and technology as the commanding force in both government and social change, it has become harder and harder for most Americans to become really well informed on the problems they face as individuals or citizens. Such a trend is bound to raise questions about the future of popular rule...
...face, the situation may help explain the mood of public disenchantment that has persisted long after the events-Viet Nam and Watergate-that were supposed to have caused it. Surely neither of those national traumas caused the drop of popular confidence in almost all key U.S. institutions that Pollster Louis Harris recently recorded. It also seems doubtful that either deprived the Administration's energy crusade of both popular support and belief. Could it be that many citizens simply feel foreclosed not only from knowledge but also from the power that knowledge would give them...