Word: outbreaks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With this week's U.S. release of Do the Right Thing, the furor goes Stateside. Not since the Black Panthers cowed Manhattan's glitterati 20 years ago has there been such a virulent outbreak of radical chic -- or so many political-disease detectives ready to stanch the epidemic. A single issue of the Village Voice ran eight articles on the movie, with opinions running from raves to cries of "fascist" and "racist." A political columnist for New York magazine charged that Lee's film could undermine the New York City mayoral campaign of a black candidate. Everywhere, the film...
...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...
...that minor eruption paled next to the outburst of violence in Uzbekistan, the fourth largest republic, located in the southern part of the U.S.S.R. The worst outbreak of ethnic mayhem in the modern Soviet era began on the night of June 3, in the city of Fergana (pop. 190,000), 150 miles southeast of Tashkent, as bands of native Uzbeks staged a series of brutal attacks on minority Meskhetian Turks, who were deported from Georgia in 1944 by Joseph Stalin. Most of the 190,000 displaced Meskhetians settled in Uzbekistan, a region that did not always welcome their presence...
...goals of higher education is to instill an appreciation of other cultures and races. But the outbreak of racial antagonism that has plagued campuses from Dartmouth to Berkeley over the past few years has jeopardized that objective. Last month the Board of Regents at the University of Wisconsin took a first step toward restoring some measure of racial civility. If the state legislature approves the plan adopted by the regents, students caught hurling racial epithets in a threatening manner will be expelled from school...
...doctors warned that the epidemic in some Latin and Caribbean nations may become as bad as the AIDS outbreak in Africa, although the severity will vary from country to country...