Word: anger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anger and despair, some South Vietnamese turned upon the Americans who were now clearly going to abandon them. ARVN soldiers menaced Westerners in the streets. Terrified crowds of Vietnamese surrounded the U.S. embassy on Thong Nhut Street, begging their old protectors to get them out. Some tried to hand their babies over the wall into the embassy compound. Marines used tear gas and rifle butts to hold off what had become a mob of America's allies. Relays of helicopters began ferrying people out of the compound, evacuating the Americans and many of the Vietnamese who had worked for them...
...anger and frustration had been growing apace with the trade deficit with Japan: $22 billion in 1983, $37 billion last year, more than $40 billion expected this year. As Congress looked on with dismay, U.S. negotiators reported little headway in prying open Japanese markets. Then Japan delivered the coup de grace, announcing a stunning 24% increase in auto exports to the U.S. this year, after the Reagan Administration had removed "voluntary" quotas. That ill-advised move prompted both houses of Congress last week to threaten trade retaliation against America's largest overseas commercial partner...
...after a lapse of five years, the Harvard Polo Club will return to campus, doing its best to convince undergraduates that polo is the sport of the people. "I fear very much that the elitist image will cause anger at Harvard," said Amir Farman-Farma '86, one of the cofounders of the new club. "But, we are attracted to the sport and its competitive spirit and discipline, divorced from any social connotations...
...anger. The criminal-justice system is not working in America. It is absurdly slow, overburdened, understaffed, inefficient, random in its selection of who is to be punished. From the muggers' and rapists' perspective, the uncertainty of imprisonment, indeed the likelihood of avoiding it, is actually an incentive to commit crime. Out of 550,000 reported crimes in New York City in 1983, police made 106,000 arrests, but only 13,500 suspects wound up behind bars. Observes Circuit Court Judge Lawrence Richter Jr. of Charleston, S.C.: "The Goetz incident is just symptomatic of what's going on everywhere. People...
...Eastern Cape, one of South Africa's major industrial regions, was simmering. Police in armored vehicles patrolled black townships, while groups of black youths waited for a chance to vent their anger. Here and there, buildings smoldered, streets were barricaded. Less than a week earlier, 25 years to the day after the Sharpeville massacre of 69 black South Africans by security forces, the police had gunned down 19 black demonstrators near Uitenhage, 20 miles from Port Elizabeth, the Eastern Cape's largest city...