Word: tensions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite increased racial tension on campus nationwide, the University has experienced few incidences of racism. While minority students say that racism exists and is pervasive, it has not appeared at Harvard in the violent forms it has at other universities...
...tension continued throughout Gorbachev's three-day trip to Rumania, the first official visit by a Soviet leader since 1976. It was also the last of a series of outings to the six East bloc countries, whose aging leaders generally regard Gorbachev's reforms with suspicion, seeing in them a subtle reproach to their policies and a threat to their power. Gorbachev had saved the toughest challenge for last. Ceausescu's Rumania is the most rigorously centralized and thoroughly policed of the Soviet satellites. The aging and bafflingly eccentric Ceausescu, 69, has spurned Gorbachev's campaign of glasnost (openness...
...takeover, though, fueled rather than cooled ethnic tension. Early last week business in Suva was at a standstill after fearful Indian shopkeepers boarded up their stores with storm shutters and retreated to their homes. Army units patrolled the streets, keeping watch on loitering gangs of Fijian youths. Eventually, some 500 native Fijians gathered in the center of Suva and began to run riot. They swarmed through the city, wrecking the stalls of Indian traders. One group hauled Indian taxi drivers from their vehicles, beating them and breaking car windows. The mob then charged 1,000 Indians in a city park...
...lint and showcased in acrylic boxes, came scenes. An intimate birthday party, with a chocolate cake, flowers and candles on the table, two figures seated across from each other, and the artist's comment: "All the romantic items -- the roses and things -- sometimes obscure the other person. There is tension between the people. But it's a birthday! You still observe it. But the food might taste like lint...
...Nigeria had been independent for six years, but "a nation in name only." Tension among the Yoruba, Ibo, and some two hundred other tribes came to a head when an aborted coup led by lbo army officers resulted in the death of a Moslem leader. The call reverberated throughout Nigeria: "One million Ibos must die to avenge the death of the Saudana." In October, 1966, the Federal Military Government of Nigeria began a blockade of the Eastern Region--seven months before Biafra would secede...