Word: turmoil
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...alves' position had grown increasingly shaky as an alliance of anti-Communists sought to oust the leftist Premier from office. In the face of political and economic turmoil at home and a situation bordering on chaos in several of Portugal's remaining colonies, President Francisco da Costa Gomes was finally forced to a decision that he had hoped to avoid. After a late-night meeting with nine military moderates at his seaside residence, São Julião da Barra Fort outside Lisbon, Costa Gomes agreed that his old friend Gonçalves would have...
Sabotage, strikes, production slowdowns, high living by plant managers -the problems would be familiar in any Western industrial nation. But in China? Yet lately the Chinese press has been full of references to turmoil in the country's factories. Officials have been attacked for their "bourgeois style of living" and "use of materials, money, feasts and beautiful women." The papers have bemoaned splits among workers and disruptive strikes...
...second year in a row, Boston seems headed for turmoil over busing. Federal District Court Judge W. Arthur Garrity's Phase Two plan for school desegregation, announced in May, calls for the busing of some 25,000 students, up from 18,000 last year, to ensure that the racial mixture at most Boston schools approximates the citywide student ratio of 52% white, 36% black and 12% other minorities. But the Boston school committee, a steadfast opponent of busing, has been stalling on preparations for transportation, security and other matters. Recently, Garrity postponed school opening by one week, to Sept...
...surface, the President's holiday mood appeared to reflect the tranquillity of much of the country. A year ago, the nation was in a turmoil over the Watergate scandals and Richard Nixon's resignation as President. This August most Americans seemed determined to make the best of the season. In California alone, crowds at parks and campgrounds will hit 50 million this year, an increase of almost 20% over last year. Similarly, attendance at major-league baseball games already approaches the 1973 record...
...gone through a bitter and highly publicized annulment fight with his second wife, Britain's Lady Carolyn Townshend. Last week he was to have married another young Englishwoman, Georgiana Webb, 25, whose parents own a country restaurant (Ye Olde Nosebag) east of London. During the kidnap turmoil, the wedding, of course, was postponed-although a truckload of flowers arrived incongruously at Yorktown nevertheless. At week's end there was an entirely different reason for bright flowers, Seagram's V.O. and celebration...