Word: unpopularity
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...never much in doubt. The treaty of accession admitting the four new Common Market members could have been routinely ratified by the French Parliament. But Pompidou had political ends in mind. One was to demonstrate by popular vote his shift away from De Gaulle's old and increasingly unpopular anti-British foreign policy. Another was to increase Pompidou's own luster. To whip up a large oui vote, he made his first provincial tour as President, but crowds on a 30-town tour of Lorraine were neither large nor passionate-in part, perhaps, because Pompidou's speech...
...impotence of Thieu's regime and embarrass Richard Nixon politically. For Washington, and indeed for Saigon, it was the first real test of Vietnamization, a policy that the Administration had pursued-at a cost of 12,000 U.S. lives and three more years in a divisive and unpopular war-in order to buy time until the South Vietnamese could defend their own soil. To the Administration, however, the Communist attack was an opportunity as well as an uncertain challenge. The White House is convinced, as one official put it last week, that "if the Vietnamese fight well, this will...
Wain is particularly acute on Orwell's impact on his contemporaries. Orwell saw through leftist cant and he saw through Stalin - which tended to make him unpopular with his natural allies...
...thrown the prestige of his office behind a somewhat toughened version of the Mansfield-Scott Amendment, which among other things would prohibit the use of federal funds for school desegregation unless a local community seeks them. The danger is that what has been billed as a correction of an unpopular device to achieve integration could turn into a headlong retreat from integration itself...
...fear." The "message" that Floridians must send out, he argued, ought not to be "that this is where the New South died; that the party of John F. Kennedy speaks with the voice of George C. Wallace." It was a courageous stand, but it proved to be highly unpopular in Florida...