Word: beset
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...military dictatorship of Prime Minister Thanom Kittikachorn, 62, was inefficient, authoritarian and beset with economic problems. There was wide discontent because of the rising cost of rice and Thanom's police-state methods. The revolt that abruptly brought down his regime started when university students in Bangkok issued a list of mild demands that seemed to have goals more appropriate to Disraeli than Mao: a new constitution (the old one had been arbitrarily scrapped by the military government in 1971) and free elections. To the government, however, the demands amounted to near sedition. Twelve student demonstrators and professors were...
...CITY BESET by over 150 murders each year, it is odd that two should be treated so differently. For the most part, the stories which reported the murders were accurate (discounting of course the Barba fiasco) but the prominence assigned th stories and the subsequent graphic, and follow-up reporting was badly overdone...
Trudeau is beset by serious political and economic woes. Despite all his efforts, Canada is reeling from growing inflation and rising unemployment. Quebec separatists regard the Official Languages Act-which makes French along with English the official language of government-as tokenism. The western provinces growl that the government is ignoring their problems...
Nixon, looking confident and jovial, made no mention of the scandal which brought the resignation of Spiro T. Agnew on Wednesday, or the other scandals which have beset his administration...
Plans for the Institute, four years in the offing, have been beset by many of the same troubles that have plagued the Afro Department's early existence. Controversy over control of the Institute has brought planning to a virtual halt, making a 1970 prediction that a research program would begin during 1970-71 look like a sick joke...