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...Sandinistas may have internal reasons for considering a change in the highly unpopular draft law. It has led to widespread draft evasion and even fights between Nicaraguans and Sandinista officials who roam the country looking for recruits. At the same time, the Sandinistas evidently feel that their armed forces, already much larger than those of any neighboring country, are at appropriate strength levels...
...seems to be a documented fact that the press is something of an unpopular institution. A lot of people think that it's too powerful and that it's too insensitive...
...thing; but diplomacy without power is simply impotent. At the same time, we should not give the impression that our approach is almost completely military. We have not given enough emphasis to our economic power. Now, I know from my own experience that foreign aid is the most unpopular damn thing in the world. It is a loser politically. We have to make it a winner...
Whatever mainstream church leaders think of Unificationism as a faith, many have voiced their objection to Moon's imprisonment. He has protested that his conviction amounts to selective persecution of an unpopular religion. A wide variety of religious leaders agree, including the National Council, Moral Majority Founder Jerry Falwell, and Roman Catholic Bishop Ernest Unterkoefler of Charleston...
Democrats were quick to deflate speculation that the President's MX victory would provide momentum in Congress for his other unpopular programs, including large increases in the military budget and new aid to antigovernment contra guerrillas in Nicaragua. Even Republican Senator Paul Laxalt, Reagan's closest friend in Congress, admits that those are "wholly different issues," without the patriotic overtones that Reagan evoked so effectively in the MX campaign. Some legislators were even talking of chopping $1 billion or more from the $3.7 billion the Administration has requested for research on the Strategic Defense Initiative, usually called Star Wars...