Word: unpopularities
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...split the two gubernatorial races. New Jersey's Democratic Governor Brendan Byrne, whose self-effacing campaign style consists of a strained smile and straight-arm salute, came from way behind to swamp Republican State Senator Ray Bateman, who tripped up in trying to propose an alternative to the unpopular state income tax. Virginia's Republican Lieutenant Governor John Dalton easily moved up in rank by beating Democrat "Howlin' " Henry Howell, a big-business-baiting populist who can make the Lord's Prayer sound like Lenin's urging an assault on the Winter Palace...
...Howell was his own worst enemy in Virginia, Republican Ray Bateman precipitated the re-election of Governor Byrne in New Jersey. Byrne had become a most unpopular figure (last April, according to a Rutgers University poll, only 17% of New Jerseyans thought he was doing a good job), and his lifeless image led many Democrats to dub him "one-term Byrne." But in order to win the Republican nomination, Bateman had to carry the conservative vote, which he did by strongly opposing the state income tax, and that position gave Byrne a chance to go on the offensive. The Governor...
...Soviet Union also has a flawed record. Since World War II, a dozen countries have come under Communist rule. The mystique of socialism - the dominant ideology of the Third World - has given the Russians close ties there. But somehow the Russians have trouble enlarging their footholds. They seem unpopular nearly everywhere they go. In the Middle East, where they once threatened to become the Big Brother of the Arab world, the Soviets have been kicked out of Egypt; relations with both Syria and Iraq have chilled. Despite ample military aid to leftists in Mozambique, Angola and elsewhere, they...
...pushing through major bills and tying up loose ends. To keep the Social Security system solvent, the House passed a measure that would triple taxes by 1987?and will alienate a lot of voters long before that. Whether the Senate would go along?or even face up to the unpopular issue? before adjournment was questionable. The House also served bold notice that it would not even consider a routine military-aid appropriation for South Korea unless the Seoul government began to cooperate with the congressional investigators of influence peddling on Capitol Hill...
...matter how unpopular it may be, is nevertheless a partisan of the Catholic cause. The army, with its strong anti-Catholic bias, is an antagonist, as are the Protestants. Most Catholics feel that the IRA is no more murderous than its enemies. The IRA is no more murderous than its enemies. The IRA is an organization of "their boys," Catholic boys. In a situation where moral choices are no longer black and white, loyalty to the religious group is an instinctive and natural reaction...