Word: unrest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What is being written - and said - is that unless there is a decided upturn in his fortunes before November 1968, Johnson may have to pack that suit case. Between unrest over urban upheaval, the war and the need to raise taxes, the President's popularity has shriveled almost to the vanishing point...
...Congress will vote tomorrow on policy stands concerning the war in Vietnam, the draft, unrest in the urban ghettoes, black power, and student power...
Still, Washington economy watchers were in some disagreement as to how far and how fast the economy is likely to rise amid growing labor unrest and slightly rising unemployment, and with the nation's factories running at 84.7% of capacity, the lowest figure in three years. "The recovery is not going to be as prompt and vigorous as we thought," says a senior Federal Reserve Board economist. To the White House Council of Economic Advisers, the rebound looks "very satisfying-right on track." Taking a middling view, Treasury Under Secretary Joseph Barr said: "The economy is following our blueprint...
...unrest is so small in scale and occurrence that it would hardly be noticed if it were not that modern Mexico is usually so free of any disturbances. Diaz Ordaz and P.R.I, are nonetheless concerned: the emphasis on building up industry is a calculated gamble that industrialization will raise the standard of living for all Mexicans before the day the peasants lose their faith in the Institutional Revolutionary Party. There seems no early cause for the party leaders to hedge the bet; last week, in legislative and gubernatorial elections across Mexico, P.R.I, candidates took 90% of the vote, winning...
...unrest shows no sign of abating. Last week 180 Free University students staged a 45-hour hunger strike and talkin at a West Berlin Protestant Student Center to demand the release of a jailed anti-Shah demonstrator. Whether they achieved their goal seemed almost beside the point; the act of protest itself was the crucial issue...