Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long lines at the gas pump were short-lived. The immediate problem seems not supply but price. Those high prices, in combination with the recession, have al ready appreciably cut into U.S. oil demand. Why make the voters back home suffer, the legislators' reasoning goes, by enacting unpopular measures that might or might not reduce consumption further...
...Brazil and the U.S.; he has also been reported to be still in Buenos Aires or on an air force base near the city. Wherever he was, there was a growing suspicion among Argentines that López Rega simply wanted to put some distance between himself and the unpopular measures the government is trying to impose...
...Sociology Department's junior faculty demanded a voice in hiring of non-tenured department members, and the right to attend and vote in departmental senior faculty meetings. In the History Department, the undergraduate curriculum committee continued its insistence on curriculum reform and the changing of the department's unpopular general examination in comparative history...
AMERICAN INDIFFERENCE to Turkey's order for "peacekeeping" in Cyprus prompted Greek President Caramanlis to end the home-port arrangement for the Sixth Fleet at Eleusis and to close an American air base. By tempering Greek associations with NATO he strengthened his domestic standing, as the U.S. is unpopular in Greece. Kissinger is despised for his support of repressive regimes in Greece. Chile, Vietnam, Cyprus...and Vice President Rockefeller is ridiculed, at least since his foolish slur in response to a serious question. When asked how he would feel if he were Greek and Turkey used U.S. supplied weapons against...
Having learned in Viet Nam that it cannot forever prop up an unpopular government, Washington will eventually have to put pressure on South Korea's President Park Chung Hee to liberalize his repressive regime. "This may not be the time to press Park publicly," says a State Department official, "but it has to be pointed out to him that it is in his own interest to ease...