Word: unrest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with more than the usual contempt for cliché and platitude. Wary orators appeared to treat the graduates of '68 with respect rather than condescension, and pleaded, in effect, that they reason together as adults. What many of them wanted to reason about was the phenomenon of student unrest...
...government must be strong enough to deal with spreading student unrest and labor agitation for better working conditions. And lurking in the shadows is the Communist Party, strengthened by votes from disgruntled Socialists in the last elections and more than willing to step into the breach. Moro himself regards an alliance with the Communists as unthinkable, but more leftist Christian Democrats see it as a way out of the dilemma. Despite the Communist specter, the Socialists seem determined to hold out on the Christian Democrats, defying all of Nenni's pleas to cooperate. Explained Socialist Luigi Mariotti, Minister...
...machines, The lull has created unemployment and put a brake on wage increases. Above , it has cost the government the confidence of many businessmen who had always staunchly supported Franco. The government gives the impression of not knowing quite what to do about either the economy or the popular unrest, and this impression is strengthened by the fact that Franco seems to spend more time fishing than tending to government. When it comes to any internal threat to his power, however, he is at 75, just as agile as ever at playing rivals off against one another. In some ways...
Lyndon Johnson's retirement was also a direct, if more gradual, reaction to popular unrest. The anti-establishment forces at work in the U.S. today-black militance, the poor people's crusade, the antiwar movement, student riots and demonstrations over these and other issues-are comparable in causation if not degree to the upheaval in France. In both countries, and many others, the malaise reflects the resentment of those who feel that they have been neglected, ignored or oppressed by outdated, inflexible political and bureaucratic systems...
Threat of Fires. But the greatest immediate concern was political. Two of the main problems that turned France upside down?student unrest and inflation?are endemic to most of Europe. Indeed, until three weeks ago, European students elsewhere had been far more ferocious than the French ones. Now, in an ominous emulation, Belgian students last week seized the university in Brussels, and New Left students in England placed the black flag of anarchy atop the London School of Economics. Warned the West German weekly Rheinischer Merkur: "France does not stand outside the political streams and conflicts of the Western world...