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The surge of unrest among Mexican students may have tapped a swelling current of discontent throughout the population. The main target: the De la Madrid government, synonymous in the minds of most Mexicans with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.), which has ruled Mexico without interruption for 58 years. Party officials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico A Swelling Tide of Troubles | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

In a pair of thoroughly mixed signals, Moscow frees some political dissidents but cracks down hard on refuseniks. -- A threatened execution of Beirut hostages does not take place, but little hope for their freedom can be found. -- Mexico is seized by a swelling current of discontent. -- A new generation of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page February 23, 1987 Vol. 129 No. 8 | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

It has been a long winter of discontent for the contras. First there was the allegation last November that funds from U.S. arms sales to Iran had been illegally diverted to bank accounts held by the rebels fighting Nicaragua's Sandinista regime. Since that bombshell, congressional criticism of the U.S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War on The Installment Plan | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

The campaign for change resulted from widespread student discontent with the school's grading curve, according to second-year student David Ull, chairman of the B-School education committee which first proposed revising the system.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B-School Changes Grading | 2/10/1987 | See Source »

"The baseball game and alcohol, rather than being the causes, were merely the catalysts," MCAD Commissioner Frederick A. Hurst said at a press conference in Springfield yesterday. "The administration's historic denial of the racial problems caused, not only the failure to predict and prevent the incident, but also caused...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UMass. Official Faults School for Brawl | 2/6/1987 | See Source »

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