Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...liberalism, a leaning that he sometimes tries to camouflage for the more conservative folks back home. He drafted the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act, which provides federal funds to rehabilitate young offenders. He supported civil rights legislation, health and welfare measures and a gun-control bill, which was unpopular in Indiana...
...Spanish officers are rightists. Many are known to be unhappy with the unpopular political task, imposed on the army by Franco only last year, of having to try and execute terrorists charged with killing policemen. There is a core of military moderates-officers who once studied at the High General Staff School under General Manuel Diez Alegria, who was abruptly sacked as army chief of staff by Franco in June 1974. Reason: Diez had openly advocated that the government ease its repression of dissidents and he was also being likened to António de Spínola, the Portuguese...
...years the United States government, in the name of help to the Vietnamese people, fed money to a series of unpopular, unprincipled anticommunists who supported America's systematic destruction of their own nation. America's rhetoric looks awfully hollow now, for America's "humanitarian" aid to the Vietnamese stopped at the same time this spring as its political allies were ousted, when Vietnam was at its most chaotic and needy. It seems clear now that all that ever concerned the U.S. government was its own military, political, and economic interests and that those interests were in direct conflict with...
ECUADOR: Failing in a move to charge prices even higher than the rest of OPEC, the country suddenly found itself losing $20 million a month in foreign currency. The government slapped a 60% tax on luxury imports, such as automobiles; the levy has been so unpopular that it helped spur on plotters who attempted a coup against President Guillermo Rodriguez Lara a month...
Gorski posted assignments to the late and unpopular shift Tuesday evening, in apparent violation of a clause in the patrolmen's contract that says an opening on a shift must be posted before anyone is assigned...