Word: turmoil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...taking a reasonably positive stand. It has condemned terrorism, and I think this is good. We have taken a lot of steps to help Sikh moderates come forward. By and large, I think there is a realization among Sikhs that we want to solve their problems and end the turmoil in Punjab...
...there is a new album, his 23rd of original material, which will be available in stores this week. Empire Burlesque is full of turmoil and anger and mystery, an oblique diary of all this time just past. It is also a record of survival and a tentative kind of triumph. Maybe Bob Dylan got a little lost, but he never left the field. This album is hard evidence that he is ready to take the point again...
...prisoner exchange played itself out, Lebanon once again was in turmoil. In Beirut, Shi'ite militiamen battled with Palestinians for control of three Palestinian refugee camps on the southern edge of the city, two of them Sabra and Shatila, where the infamous 1982 massacre took place. In the Christian eastern sector of the capital, a car bomb of unexplained origin killed 55 people and wounded 176. In Cairo, in the meantime, the Egyptian government announced that it had narrowly averted the car bombing of a diplomatic mission, presumed to be the U.S. embassy. And in Kuwait late last week...
...serious ballet dancer. She looked really smarter than your average girl but in an interesting, offbeat way. So I attached myself to her and she brought me to a ballet class, and that's where I met Christopher Flynn, who saved me from my high school turmoil. He had a ballet school in Rochester. It was beautiful. I didn't know what I was doing, really. I was with these really professional ballet dancers. I had only studied jazz up to then, so I had to work twice as hard as anybody else and Christopher Flynn was impressed with...
...earlier troubles, Gandhi had assured the All-India Congress Committee, the party's equivalent of a U.S. political convention, at its meeting in New Delhi on May 4 that "no amount of agitation can take away the power given to us by the people." But he warned that the turmoil was an indication that opposition forces were reorganizing for confrontation with the government after the drubbing they took in the December elections. Some political analysts have gone further, suggesting that the pattern of violence is disturbingly reminiscent of the beginning of the opposition's 1973 campaign against Indira Gandhi. Demonstrations...