Word: unrest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sadat badly needs a lift right now. He has just about exhausted the political popularity that he accumulated in the October war and as a result of the disengagement negotiations that put Egyptian troops back on the east bank of the canal last year. There are considerable signs of unrest in Egypt. Workers rioted briefly in January and again in March to protest rising prices and food shortages, and students also demonstrated...
Thus when the miracle happened, and the reformist streams of the initially Party-controlled Prague Spring of 1968 overflowed into a nationwide tide of unrest, the intellectuals, and writers in particular, were, by their past experience, often best equipped to help wipe out the Stalinist garbage accumulated over 20 years. Overnight the Prague literary journal Literarni Listy became the most avidly read paper in the country and its contributors, the spokesmen for popular aspirations (an understandable situation in a country where no legal means of opposition were available, writers and journalists had access to the media recently freed from censorship...
While there have been signs of unrest among workers, one disadvantaged group is rarely heard about. They are the Malays, Singapore's indigenous population who now comprise 15 per cent of the population, and are systematically discriminated against in education and employment, despite the existence of "special privileges" which go only to a few. Malay youth are never called up to serve in the armed forces, for example--a supposedly compulsory duty--and hence are denied advantages in employment and other privileges which go to national servicemen. They perform many of the society's more menial functions...
While other senior faculty acknowledge the impact of the immediate events of 1969, they place the occurrences of that year in the context of broader social and educational change. "Student unrest and faculty response were symptomatic of a hardening of attitude that was going on earlier," posits Alan Heimert, chairman of the English Department and master of Eliot House. One of the things particularly bothering students was what they saw as the "dehumanization" of the University beginning in the '50s, with an increased emphasis on research and graduate instruction and a concomitant reduction in the amount of time devoted...
...four more years and also taught at the new Faculty of Law. As his popularity soared, he became a hero to the young intellectuals opposing the corruption of the existing government. In early 1967, Sihanouk accused Samphan and two leftist colleagues of being Communist agents and starting peasant unrest. "There are those who want me to kill these three men," the Prince declared. "But I won't do it. I'll let them kill themselves...