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...atmosphere of rampant lawlessness -- kidnapping tourists, oil executives and diplomats is a favored way of registering complaints against the government -- tensions between the North and South increased. Al-Beidh's walkout crippled the government's capacity to act, even preventing the passage of a budget for this year. In January hundreds of people protested price rises in the North. With inflation exceeding 100% and devaluation of the Yemeni riyal eroding incomes averaging less than $600 a year, the government feared a recurrence of the food-price riots of December 1992, in which more than 100 people were killed...
...falling tree. Tietou's uncle is going blind, and Uncle's girlfriend, star of an army theater troupe, is sent to jail because she refuses an order to have sex with political leaders. Shujuan's second husband (Li Xuejian) dies from a liver ailment aggravated by the rampant malnutrition of the early '60s. And during the spiteful frenzy of the Cultural Revolution, Shujuan's third husband (Guo Baochang) is humiliated and beaten by the righteous Red Guard. What is worse than young American rebels without a cause? Young Chinese cadres with...
When Anne W. Pusey '69 was asked if she wanted to stay for a fourth year at the College, she told Associate Dean of Freshmen W.C. Burriss Young '55 that she no longer wanted to be on a campus rampant with protest and unrest...
Despite his detachment from the radical campuspolitics rampant at Harvard, Barrett says thebackdrop of political and social tumult concernedhis family...
...situation is almost a replay of the battle between environmentalists and Asian nations over the ivory trade, which led to rampant poaching of African elephants during the late 1980s. Fearful that the promises made about tiger parts were as empty as the ones made about ivory, 86 organizations, led by the Earth Island Institute (EIA) and Britain's Tiger Trust, took their case against China and Taiwan to the governing committee of CITES in March 1993. The committee gave the two countries six months to start cracking down on the trade in tiger parts and rhino horn. The deadline...