Word: discontentment
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The tiger of Shi'ite discontent first roared dangerously in 1979, when Shi'ites in Qatif defied local authorities during the holy period of Ashura. The ritual led to demonstrations that according to the Saudis ended only after the National Guard intervened, leaving 10 Shi'ites dead. According to U.S...
The growing discontent in the East was manifest last week when more than 45,000 municipal workers in East Berlin, Magdeburg, Chemnitz and other cities staged two-hour "warning strikes" to support calls for higher pay, job security and preferential tax treatment in a united Germany. For the second time...
For hundreds of years, Iraq has been governed by men with ambitions to expand their country's borders. Whether a successor to Saddam would perpetuate that tradition is unknowable. But as long as Saddam himself is around, trouble will be close by. He is, after all, the same Saddam whose...
The last thing the region's rulers want is to hand Saddam a larger platform from which to trumpet his populist message of Arab unity, vengeance and pride. Most Middle Eastern countries are autocratic regimes that rule by vague historic claim or tight control of their armed forces, not by...
That is certainly true in the case of thecurrent president. In the course of Bok'sselection process in 1970, the most recentprecedent for the 1990 search, the University setout to remake itself in the wake of a period ofuncertainty and discontent.