Word: antigovernmental
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The occasion for this sudden halt in activity was a two-day general strike, called last week by a vast coalition of labor and other opposition groups seeking the ouster of Dictator General Augusto Pinochet. The work stoppage appeared to be one of the most effective antigovernment actions in the...
Following the collapse of his peace initiative last February, King Hussein has worked hard to ensure domestic stability. He curbed the activities of the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood and expelled leaders of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Last week Hussein cracked down on the Jordanian Communist Party. Twenty-three of its leaders...
Last year the parliament passed legislation requiring virtually all social and political organizations to adopt a secular state ideology known as Pancasila, a set of five principles calling for belief in one God, justice, national unity, democracy and humanitarianism. The law was designed to muffle nearly all dissent in the...
Against a background of growing official repression, at least 15 bombs exploded across Chile last week in a spasm of antigovernment violence that killed four people, including one police officer. In the capital of Santiago, four soldiers were wounded when gunmen opened fire on them from a passing car. A...
Ferdinand Marcos may be down and he may be out, but he is hardly ready to be consigned to the history books just yet. Last week the ousted President of the Philippines and his supporters sought to seize the offensive by both word and deed. From his exile in Hawaii...