Word: unrest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Palestinians. Having grown up in the Jewish state, many of these Arab youths speak fluent Hebrew, know the customs of the country and can easily be mistaken for Jews. If sufficient numbers of them were to join the terrorists?a realistic possibility should the causes of Arab unrest continue?Israel might well find itself combatting a war on its home front as well as a threat on its frontiers...
Some of the pro-Holcombe protestors are not working to help Holcombe but merely to create mass unrest, Powers said yesterday...
...Muammar Gaddafi. Moscow intimates that Egypt's staggering debt for previous goods and services-still about $6 billion, including commercial loans-is a reason for the slowdown. Sadat in private conversations gives probably a more accurate reason. He accuses the Soviets of attempting to overthrow him by generating unrest in Egypt in revenge for his participating in U.S. step-by-step diplomacy...
Observers differed on whether the West Bank disorders stemmed principally from local discontent or were the work of P.L.O. provocateurs. In either case, the unrest seemed to threaten the much heralded municipal elections scheduled to be held in 25 West Bank communities next month. Yet the long-term effect could prove beneficial. "At least Israel is debating in the same forum as the P.L.O ," noted an Egyptian official. "Now perhaps something can be organized where they can get to the guts of the problem...
...since Francisco Franco's death last November had the new regime of King Juan Carlos faced a grimmer spectacle of unrest than it did last week. The northern Basque province of Alava was in a vicious, rebellious mood. The provincial capital of Vitoria was completely shut down, and the industrial city's 180,000 inhabitants seethed with bitterness. Riot police sent in by the national government had shot dead three young demonstrators outside one of Vitoria's churches; at least 100 more citizens were wounded in the melee...