Word: ethnical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still, history seemed to be deviating from its script. The trade union founded by a spunky electrician won the election in Poland, but the military seemed to stay in the barracks. The Soviet press blazoned news of violent ethnic unrest in Uzbekistan to a public it formerly kept in the dark about domestic strife. And even in China, where old men reverted to the only kind of power they knew, there was at least the phantom suggestion of tanks against tanks. But in the end, the name of the People's Liberation Army still turned out to be a cruel...
...Soviet Union, the latest outbreak of ethnic unrest in Uzbekistan was a reminder of what may be the operative difference between Deng Xiaoping's realm and Mikhail Gorbachev's: in the Middle Kingdom, things fall apart from the center outward, while in the U.S.S.R. it is the other way around. Both face a common challenge in devising ways to meet the demands of their citizens...
...military underwent repeated purges and came under the influence of the clerics, its force was swiftly applied to suppress ethnic minorities that had supported the revolution in hopes of gaining greater cultural and political autonomy. The excesses led to nearly 10,000 executions -- some put the actual figure as high as 20,000 -- and tens of thousands of arrests. This provoked a campaign of assassination by dissident Islamic guerrillas that eliminated hundreds of top members of the Ayatullah's regime...
...Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence announces the creation of a special fund to promote development of ethnic studies courses by bringing visiting professors in the field to Harvard...
Nowhere was the issue of pluralism more prominent than in the coordination of student demands for reform in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. For years, minority groups have pleaded, demanded and bargained with administrators for ethnic studies courses to balance out the University's curriculum. In 1988, after a coalition of minority leaders filed an intensive and stinging criticism of hiring practices, the faculty finally responded...