Word: sloganeered
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...Good Feeling." Will Balaguer be able to keep the leftists under control when he takes office July 1? Most Dominicans are hopeful, and Balaguer himself seems determined to follow through on his campaign slogan of "revolution without blood." He promises land for peasants, lower prices, more jobs-and most of all, an end to fighting. "The Dominican people," he says, "need peace and a chance to live a good life." If the leftists do get out of hand, his country's 30,000-man military establishment is solidly behind him. So are the 8,000 remaining troops...
...current movement is to organize an "aggression day" on which students can pelt one another with mudpies and bags of water regardless of ideology and for no reason whatever. Not the least significant expression of the nation's mixed-up mood was a bumper sticker with the slogan: SEND BATMAN TO VIET NAM. There was also a new button that proclaimed...
...police attack; he also sent a bland message to his parish priests, to be read at Sunday Masses. Since the message virtually ignored the question of police brutality to clergymen, many priests added a few choice words of their own at the end. "One of our newspapers' slogans," snapped Father Narciso Saguer Vilar of San Ildefonso's Church, "is that we priests should only preach the Gospel and stay closed in our sacristies. This is simply a meaningless slogan that is picked up and repeated by enemies of the church when they fear the voice of truth...
...freshman attributed the failure of the riots to the cold weather, another to the lack of a slogan. But the consensus seemed to be that this was just a rehearsal...
...bomb plots, some Haitian exiles feel that Papa Doc should simply be left alone to mismanage himself into collapse. Even at that, there is strong doubt that he would ever surrender office voluntarily. He is bound up almost mystically with his job, and now seems to believe the neon slogan ("I am the Haitian flag, one and indivisible") that glares above a Port-au-Prince city park. What seems more likely is that some time, suddenly, in a peculiarly Haitian way with little warning, Duvalier will be gone. Who would come after him? Most likely, someone not much better...