Word: unpopularity
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...Black September. They finally let me through, though I don't look much like a fedayeen type." Adds Bell: "I'm more the Winston Churchill type, as was testified to by the Persian mob that nearly lynched me during the Mossadegh days, when Mr. Churchill was distinctly unpopular in Iran...
...most part, the victims were local officials whom the enemy wanted to eliminate either because they were especially effective in their jobs, or because they were so unpopular that the Viet Cong could win favor by killing them. The primary motive for the show trials and the brutalities, reports TIME Correspondent Rudolph Rauch, "appears to have been to wreck whatever allegiance the government might have built up, and there are few more effective ways of mitigating allegiance than to bury four dozen loyal men alive" -as happened in the town of Bong Son. Some examples...
...Vienna-trained anti-Freudian psychiatrist who settled in Chicago in 1922. To show how, Low wrote a book called Mental Health Through Will-Training and founded a psychotherapeutic self-help organization called Recovery, Inc. Until after his death in 1954, Low's behavior therapy was professionally unpopular in the Freudian-dominated American psychiatric world, but today it has come into its own, and Recovery, Inc. is thriving...
Indeed, Connally's blustery, sometimes abrasive ways, coupled with his ready access to a usually inaccessible President, made him highly unpopular with more than a few in the Nixon circle. At a press awards dinner last week, Secretary of Commerce Pete Peterson wryly alluded to Connally's penchant for poaching in other than Treasury preserves. Said Peterson: "Almost everybody is sorry to see him go. The State Department is having a going-away party; it is now in its 32nd hour...
Nationalists denounced the new policy as a "sellout," "hoax" and "one big zero" and threatened to make it a hot issue in the forthcoming Canadian election campaign. Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau may well beat them because he has taken aim at an unpopular form of investment. Takeovers, mostly by U.S. firms, account for only 17% of the flow of foreign investment money into Canada, but they are especially noxious to many Canadians because they do nothing directly to expand production or jobs but only transfer ownership to outsiders. Whatever happens in the next election, it would be a grave mistake...