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By early February the year was looking pretty long. While drinking chocolate milk in one of the dining halls, Jewett must have been feeling slightly frustrated over his ability to deal with several of the campus's big issues. While professors were taking money from the CIA, alleged sexual harrassers...

Author: By Evan O. Grossman, | Title: It's Been a Long Year, Fred | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

In a nationwide radio and television address, delivered partly in folksy native Creole, Council President Lieut. General Henri Namphy acknowledged that there was widespread discontent. Said he: "If you think it is grave now, I tell you it could be a lot graver if people don't return to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti a Timely Appeal | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

If the raid was in fact a veiled execution attempt, it would pit the Reagan Administration against a specific presidential order and substantial legal precedent. In 1976, after public discontent over the revelations of cia assassination attempts in Chile, Guatemala and Iran, President Ford issued an Executive Order forbidding the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gaddafi: Wanting It Both Ways | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

"There is discontent, no doubt about it," said Swamy. He said that although Gandhi "enjoys a huge majority" of political support in parliament, he has recently lost the backing of 12 of 24 provinces in popular elections.

Author: By Sophia A. Van wingerden, | Title: Prof to Return to India, Will Start Political Party | 4/23/1986 | See Source »

Domestically, the ruling House of Saud faces some rising discontent from a middle class that remains shut out of political power. In what remains a largely feudal society with a complex system of consensus building, the technocrats and businessmen who emerged during the boom years lack modern forums in which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saudi Arabia Facing a Double-Barreled Gun | 4/21/1986 | See Source »

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