Word: discontentment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This doube has served to underline other tensions within Israel. The settlements that Begin continues to create in the occupied territories are like needles in a collective Israeli flesh. Each new settlement puts greater strain on Jewish-Arab relations. As tempers flare, the government feels forced to take security measures...
Let the debate about the war continue, let the investigation of the massacre run its course. And give Arabs in Israel the chance to express themselves, permit the Sephardim to voice their discontent. Stifling discord, ignoring the problems that any democratic society inevitably encounters will only prove counter-productive and...
The U.S. can help also by adopting what Indiana University Political Scientist Kevin Middlebrook describes as an "open and flexible" attitude toward Mexico. Economist Clark Reynolds of Stanford University warns that Washington should avoid closing the U.S. border to Mexican immigrants in such a way as to spark social conflict...
The message apparently did not register. Salvadoran human rights organizations claim that more than 400 civilians were murdered in September alone. Also, the U.S. was becoming impatient over the failure of El Salvador's legal authorities to try a local army officer who has been accused of ordering the...
Unemployment also helped pave the trail for Democratic gubernatorial victories, particularly that of former Peace Corps Director Richard Celeste in Ohio. His opponent, Congressman Clarence Brown, was an ardent backer of Reaganomics, not the most popular philosophy in a state where 13.8% of the work force is idle. A wave...