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...Spain's mood. There is a certain dose of optimism in the country based more on realism than on false expectations. At the risk of some unpopularity, the government has carried out a policy of dealing with real problems, even with a certain amount of harshness. Our devaluation of the peseta and the increase in gasoline prices are examples. This approach has not been unpopular. Quite the contrary: what would be unpopular would be to tell the country the opposite of what is really happening...
...problem-plagued Conservatives. In the past 20 years the party has been in power only briefly, after Clark unseated Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's Liberals in 1979. But that fledgling Tory government fell after only 6½ months, the victim of Clark's brash style and unpopular austerity measures. Although Clark continued as Tory leader until stepping down in January to allow last week's convention, he was dogged by a reputation as a loser, and the party was torn by internecine squabbling...
...negotiate a political accommodation with the contras along the lines of the negotiated power sharing that some leftists in El Salvador are seeking. Some U.S. officials would like to see the eventual collapse of the Managuan government, which has become increasingly totalitarian in its domestic policies, and increasingly unpopular. Certainly that is what the Sandinistas believe is the main Administration motive. Said Ramirez: "If he could do it, Reagan would finish us off with a neutron bomb. But he can't, so he's using the contras instead." For its part, the White House last week continued...
...support" and called for a return to the "class struggle" as the Socialists' central theme. Edmond Maire, leader of the Socialist-dominated Confédération Française Démocratique du Travail, has repeatedly criticized the government for failing to consult the unions before making unpopular economic decisions...
Free trade, one of the greatest blessings that a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular...