Word: antigovernmental
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These were questions that plagued nervous Western diplomats as Iran-the oil-rich keystone to stability in volatile Central Asia-staggered through another week of turmoil and antigovernment demonstrations that have brought the economy to a virtual standstill. A walkout by 11,000 employees of Iran Air grounded all 162...
When it was all over, the people wearing ranch mink coats and silk suits got up from reserved seats and left the stadium. But the fans wearing sneakers and jeans and old ski jackets stayed in their standing-room sheep pens and refused to move. For the better part of...
Tour guides point out the homes of Soweto's black leaders (most of whom are, or have been, detained for antigovernment activities). The visitors also see the charred remains of buildings burned during the riots of 1976. Presumably, the tourists also note such sights as unemployed blacks drinking at...
One Administration official is convinced that the Clark amendment, which prohibited the Ford Administration from aiding antigovernment forces in Angola, was a factor in emboldening the Soviets to step up their activity in Africa. Another, this official believes, was the U.S.Soviet joint statement on the Middle East last October, which...
A government crackdown against political dissenters last October transformed South African Journalist Donald Woods into one of his country's silent men. In retaliation for his antigovernment editorials. Woods, 44, was "banned" for five years-which means that his movements were severely restricted, he was prohibited from returning to...