Word: calme
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cambridge School Committee has survived yet another two years of long meetings and personality clashes, but this time avoided bitter fights over desegregation, tight budgets, and even an AIDS policy. Despite occasionally drifting from its relatively peaceful course, the committee has been calm, members say, partly because of the careful search for the new superintendent and his subsequent "honeymoon" period...
...government is trying to calm the dangerous situation, but so far with little success. The House of Commons began debating whether all uninsured deposits at the two failed banks, meaning all those larger than $60,000, should be given federal protection. John Turner, leader of the opposition Liberal Party, argued against it. "Is there now to be an implicit government guarantee to bail out future depositors in any difficulty?" he asked. The banking failures are exacerbating the political troubles of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. Two Cabinet members recently resigned; one of them faces possible charges of misappropriating campaign funds...
...past year, 22 people have been killed in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia, where native Melanesians seeking an independent nation are pitted against French settlers who want rule by Paris to continue. But there was surprising calm last week when voters chose a 46-member territorial congress as the first step in France's plan to give New Caledonia greater autonomy before a referendum on limited independence is held in 1987. The peaceful balloting was due in part to 162 French magistrates who served as poll watchers, and 3,500 French gendarmes...
Moreover, the Board should not be concerning itself with the prosecution of those who merely sympathized with the relatively calm protest at 17 Quincy St. Rather, it should start thinking about how it is going to deal with those who may have truly violated the civil liberties of others--at Lowell House last spring when protesters blockaded a South African diplomat inside the room he was speaking...
...seeming paradox, the location of last week's quake was thought to be endangered because it had been calm for so long. The epicenter of the quake, in the ocean about 150 miles up the coast from Acapulco, lay within a kind of geological DMZ known as a seismic gap: a region that had not experienced a major earthquake for many years, but where bottled-up stress caused by tectonic-plate activity had reached the bursting point...