Word: unrest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After months of student unrest over Harvard's holdings in firms operating in South Africa, countless meetings of the Advisory Commitee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR), two open hearings and several Corporation meetings on the subject, the Harvard Corporation announced its decision Thursday morning. The result hardly pleased students, thousands of whom took to the streets the same night in protest...
...Jordan River's West Bank. During the Israeli plunge into Lebanon, complaints from West Bank Arabs about rough treatment at Israeli hands reached a crescendo, as units of the 2,200-member Israeli garrison there carried out arrests and other measures apparently intended to discourage any unrest. There were a few demonstrations, to be sure, but the Israeli crackdown was indiscriminate. Said a Western diplomat in Jerusalem: "There is a widespread feeling that we haven't seen this kind of repression here for years, if ever...
...billion. In recent years U.S. banks have supplied an every-increasing proportion of these loans as the Vorster government's international credit rating declined. Without American support, South Africa could not have financed the development program it adopted which now makes it much easier to keep down black unrest and resistance...
...still supplies 80% of the area's needs, and wants to continue to do so. The dependency helps bind the otherwise restless Poles, Czechs, East Germans and Hungarians to the U.S.S.R. At home, some conservation measures have been introduced, but the Kremlin would be unwilling to risk the unrest that might come from drastic cutbacks in government plans to expand industry and raise living standards. Abroad, oil sales enable the Russians to buy the latest technology needed to step up economic development, including the improvement of drilling methods, and to buy grain when their own harvests fall short...
...concern of commentators, some of whom began to draw grim parallels with the violence and political unrest that prevailed in Italy before the Fascist takeover in 1922. "Today, again, we have a determined minority waiting in the wings to exploit the first turbulence in our political, economic or social equilibrium," said Rome University Historian Rosario Romeo. "And if this were to happen, I would not vouch that civil strife could be avoided." However, others pointed out that in 1922 Italy was in a state of political anarchy, while the present government crisis, for all the chaos, is an example...