Word: unrest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Unrest among the blacks often turns on real discrimination or the failure of the military to accept the trappings of black soldiers bent on "doing their thing." Promotions, awards and coveted rear-area assignments are too often slow in coming the black soldiers' way, however well they fight or however high their proportion of casualties. Some 13% of battle deaths are black, while Negroes make up 11.1% of the American population and 9.2% of the military...
Feather is also moving to trim the power of the miners, steelworkers and other old-industry unions. He wants to cut strikes and industrial unrest by 40% over the next year, but the government, businessmen and the public appear doubtful that he can succeed. If Feather fails, Wilson could be hurt. The latest Gallup polls show that only 25% of the electorate think that the Labor Party can halt the stoppages; 31% think that the Conservatives would do a better...
...terrorists, often organized into "cells" of three or more operatives, find the teeming cities to be excellent breeding grounds for unrest-and perfect places to hide. What makes urban terrorism particularly attractive to them is the fact that incidents occurring in the cities usually get far more publicity than do those that take place in the countryside-an important factor...
...college students prepare to return to classes, the question is not whether there will be calm on the campuses but whether the continuing protest wave can be kept below tidal proportions. TIME interviews at a score of institutions last week indicated that many university administrators expect renewed unrest, but they hope that defensive tactics developed from the cruel experiences of recent years, plus concessions to legitimate student demands, will prevent violence and the disruption of entire universities. At Dartmouth, Dean Carroll Brewster was discussing prospects for the fall when a loud noise outside his office window interrupted him. "That...
Satisfying Student Demands That students have had legitimate grievances is now almost universally accepted, and so is the proposition that reforms in advance of crises is the best long-term answer to unrest. The ultra-radicals, of course, can almost never be appeased. But they are relatively impotent if they can win no significant following among the less explosive majority. The concessions being made are therefore aimed at the moderates...