Word: populists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also been closely associated with populist-conservative gurs Richard Viguerie, publisher of the Conservative Digest, who donsted $1000 to Shamie's 1984 campaign, included him on his list of 500 top givers to pop-con causes, and until recently was reportedly a close Shamie advisor...
...enough voters believe in the Shamie of the populist tradition and the Reagan approach to life and government, and reject the John Birch Society and NCPAC, then the Boy State may find itself with a Republican complement to Ted Kennedy in the Senate...
...admission seems strangely humble coming from Winter, a popular and respected former Governor. A low-key but courageous progressive on racial issues, Winter, 61, became a populist hero by pushing through a sweeping 1982 education reform and tax bill that, among other things, makes it mandatory beginning in 1986 for local school districts to offer kindergarten classes. After completing one term as Governor and being barred by law from succeeding himself, Winter was the obvious choice to assert the Democratic Party's claim to pre-eminence in the progressive New South...
...Napoleón Duarte stood on the outskirts of the dusty provincial town of La Palma, poised for a meeting that few of his countrymen had dared to imagine would take place. "They said we could never do it, but we are here," declared the stocky populist President before plunging into a crowd of camera-laden journalists and citizens waving paper flags. Then Duarte and his unarmed four-man entourage moved toward the town's Sweet Name of Mary Church, an angular structure built in 1960. Inside the building they faced the most important confrontation of Duarte...
...cloud appeared the day before the inauguration ceremony. About 1,000 demonstrators chanting "Fraud! Fraud!" staged a late-night protest in Panama City's Cathedral Plaza. The demonstrators were backers of Ardito Barletta's venerable populist rival in last May's presidential election, Arnulfo Arias Madrid, 83. Arias lost the election by a mere 1,713 of the 640,000 votes cast, prompting widespread accusations of fraud. Said Winston Robles, editor of the opposition daily La Prensa: "The main problem for Nicky is one of legitimacy...