Word: unrest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Moreover, this conclusion is based on several premises, none of which may be entirely safe. Among them are the assumptions that Humphrey will be Nixon's opponent, that the Paris peace talks will not have made dramatic progress, which could boost Humphrey's prospects, and that ghetto unrest will not flare into disastrous rioting. Given these qualifications, here is how the race for November figures...
...have deeper, more serious impact. In a discussion of the causes of last year's ghetto riots, the Kerner Report suggested that the enticements of TV commercials, "endlessly flaunted before the eyes of the Negro poor and the jobless ghetto youth," were an important inducement to the state of unrest. Opinion Researcher Mervin Field goes so far as to suggest that commercials constitute "a looter's shopping list...
...crowd on Rio Branco, and for most of the country, a big cause of the current unrest is the government's arid educational policy and the rough police treatment of students protesting it. In the past three years, education's share of the national budget has dropped from 11% to 7.7% and the number of illiterate, already half the total population of 85,655,000, has slightly increased. Overcrowded Rio universities are now forced to turn away two out of three qualified applicants...
...Labor unrest is only one evidence that British complacency has more than survived last fall's devaluation of the pound. Though exports have since climbed by 15%, Britain's promised curb on imports has yet to take effect. May's $206 million trade deficit was just as large as April's. Last week the pound went to a post-devaluation low of $2.3829 on foreign exchange markets. Prime Minister Harold Wilson has so far refused to intervene in the labor disputes, after saying optimistically that "British industry...
...decide that all the talk about new politics and the need for change has made all the principal contenders obsolete. In Miami Beach, the Republicans nominate Jacob Javits and Edward Brooke. In Chicago, the Democrats pick Abe Fortas and Carl Stokes. The big issue in the ensuing campaign is unrest in the suburbs...