Word: populists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tragedy, the second time as farce. Haitians experienced tragedy in November when soldiers and thugs murdered some 50 people and halted the country's first free presidential elections in 30 years. When the polls opened again last week, the result was closer to farce. The country's four leading populist candidates refused to run, and less than 10% of Haiti's 3 million voters turned out for the election, which was held amid a boycott called by opposition leaders. Election officials examined each vote before dropping it in the box. Ballot stuffing appeared to be widespread...
...George Bush, Robert Dole, Richard Gephardt, Michael Dukakis, Albert Gore and Paul Simon have all made their names by being competent insiders. Yet almost every candidate, with the exception of Bush (who with his pedigree paternity and Washington resume virtually embodies the Establishment), is now trying to mine a populist vein...
...decade. All twelve were disqualified from the November contest. At the end of last week Namphy, in an apparent bid to lend the elections credibility, again sidelined the Duvalierist candidates. Namphy's personal favorite is Gerard Phillippe Auguste, a little-known agronomist who heads one of Haiti's oldest populist parties...
...said Harvard served Vellucci's political ambitions well as "a good foil for his populist kind of politics," adding that "when you scrape away the rhetoric," Vellucci is proud to coexist--if not cohabit--with the University...
...tends to be a populist and relatively challenging of all institutions," said Jane H. Corlette, director of the University's governmental relations for health policy. For him, she said, "anything that comes cloaked in big money or big organization is something to be suspicious...