Word: discontentment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THE LEADERS of Argentina's ruling military junta, faced with mass discontent and protests at home, embarked last week on a foreign adventure that has brought them to the brink of war with Britain. The invasion of the Falkland Islands was clearly a ploy to distract Argentine citizens from their...
But as City Councilor David Sullivan noted, back room discussions between Overseers and Harvard officials effectively exclude public concerns and public accountability. A formal statement by the University on city issues is needed now as much as ever because of growing discontent among Harvard's tenants.
When Secretary of State Alexander Haig and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko last met, recalls one senior American official, "There was no name calling, and not a lot of rhetoric." But that was in September, and there was also no crackdown in Poland. Since then, U.S.-Soviet tensions have escalated...
Congratulations on an excellent article lucidly describing the powers and weaknesses of Communism. Mr. Reagan should study it thoroughly. He may then understand that discontent in a populace ruled by a dictator, no matter how benevolent, is fertile ground for the growth of a Communist Party. The right-wing dictatorships...
The coup was the fifth since 1966, when former President Kwame Nkrumah, who was in power when Ghana got its independence from Britain in 1957, was overthrown following widespread discontent over food shortages, corruption and extravagant government spending. Ghana has since become a case study in African nationalism gone wrong...