Word: populists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Meanwhile, some rural Cambodians will probably remain susceptible to Khmer Rouge populist appeals as Pol Pot's men cultivate votes. Their propaganda, though crude, can be effective. Near an abandoned pagoda about 50 miles northeast of Phnom Penh, a wall is inscribed with the caricature of an urban intellectual. His fat tongue bears the message, THE RICH MAN HAS POWER. THE POOR ARE SCARED...
MILESTONES The theater mourns Joseph Papp, a populist impresario...
From the moment of his appointment last May following the death of Republican John Heinz in a plane crash, Wofford, a Great Society liberal, began transforming himself into a Huey Long-like Democratic populist. In one early move, Wofford rejected the $150,000 he was supposed to receive for mass mailing expenses. In another, he renounced the $23,200 pay raise the Senate had voted itself. "There's a national recession out there," said Wofford. "Now is no time for us to be paying ourselves more of our taxpayers' hard- earned dollars." Wofford gave the extra money to a charity...
THOMAS RICHARD HARKIN'S name is Thomas Richard Harkin. But if you call the two-term Iowa senator's campaign office ("Americans for Harkin" in ritzy Bethesda, Maryland--not the most populist location for someone like Harkin), don't ask for Thomas Richard Harkin. Tom Harkin will do just fine, thanks...
...take a tougher stand. Fighting has already crossed the border into Iraq. Over the weekend, Turkish planes bombed Iraqi areas from which Kurdish guerrillas staged a raid into Turkey that killed 17 soldiers. The Kurdish issue could conceivably prevent Demirel from forming a new government with the Social Democratic Populist Party, which came in third in the election with 20.8% of the vote...