Word: turmoils
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...urging people to "Learn from Lei Feng," a mawkishly selfless soldier who was virtually canonized by Chairman Mao. If stronger medicine is needed to awaken top party and local leaders to the dangers of internal divisions, hard-liners are offering a one-hour video titled Eastern Europe in Turmoil. According to one viewer, the tape is designed "to make local Communist officials realize that if in a crisis they fail to hitch a line to the Communist boat, they will all sink together -- like Ceausescu...
...question now facing the city was what, if anything, could avert a plunge into deeper turmoil. Less than five months after he was sworn in as New York's first African-American mayor, Dinkins was confronting severe strains in the multiracial society he likes to call the "gorgeous mosaic." Yusuf Hawkins, Dinkins declared, had been killed by "racism in the first degree." Though "no verdict can take back the hate that was unleashed upon him or the pain that was inflicted upon all of us by the attack," said Dinkins, "it does allow us to begin to turn our attention...
NATION: Mixed verdicts in a racial murder plunge New York City into turmoil...
...fiscally weakened schools, such tactics may only postpone the inevitable. The turmoil at Mills could soon be repeated at Pittsburgh's Chatham College, a tiny (615 students) liberal arts school, whose trustees are scheduled to vote in October on whether to admit men. To many young women the rush to coeducation has created a disturbing, and unjustified, diminution of educational choices. "Women's colleges have not become obsolete," maintains Catie Hancock, 21, a Bryn Mawr junior. "It is other factors that kill these schools...
...Chicago turmoil, meanwhile, is far from over, and more trouble could erupt this week. Uno, a Hispanic group active in the principals controversy, is expected to pack a meeting of the board of education. Unquestionably, the highly charged atmosphere robs students and teachers of precious classroom time. But, for the moment at least, many Chicagoans take some comfort in the notion that parent-led councils, while imperfect, could not possibly make the city's beleaguered school system any worse. "All we've done now is empower people to make decisions that may or may not be right," says Professor Bakalis...