Word: unrest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that it cannot be solved in any simple manner. What is needed in Boston is the mutual cooperation of civic officials and Negro leaders to work toward long-range solutions to these problems which admit of no easy answers. To pretend that such answers exist will only exacerbate the unrest in the Negro community, and force the whites back on the defensive in another round of destructive recriminations...
MEWS is often thought to be bad news-and the badder the bigger. Certainly, any well-balanced diet of weekly news will have much to tell of diseases, controversies, unrest, agonies public and private. This week's cover story, for example, examines the long railroad featherbedding fight as it reached beyond its last mile. But much of the other big news these days deserves to be judged by some other standard than its gloom content. Will there be a nuclear test ban? How will the Sino-Soviet split affect the U.S.? These questions-like those about civil rights...
...heated racial unrest which has troubled the town of Cambridge, Maryland, for the past eighteen months was at last brought to a peaceful close this week. Both the municipal government and the Negro leaders granted concessions to the other side in an effort to reach a workable accord and in so doing exercised an encouraging amount of good sense; the violence has been put aside and the Eastern Shore community is evidently on its way to reshaping its backward civil rights posture...
...Valdex did not claim that the of the Negroes "fulfills Marxist as you allege--he remarked, this is close paraphrasing, "The Negro uprising in the U.S.A. may be the indication of deep social unrest generated among working classes in the due to economic stagnation. We wait a while longer...
...Khrushchev delivered his famed "secret speech" to the Congress, in which he suddenly unmasked Stalin as a megalomaniacal tyrant. Peking was stunned. Mao felt-correctly, as was proved a few months later by the uprisings in Poland and Hungary-that the destalinization drive would touch off a wave of unrest. Even though Stalin had bullied and betrayed the Chinese Communists (as well as helped them, at a price, during the Korean war), Mao believed in Stalin's principle of centralized rule, preferred a stable Red empire to one in ferment...