Word: unrest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inflation flaring to double-digit levels. To curb runaway prices, one government after another cut spending and tightened up credit. Now these measures seem at long last to be slowing the pace of price increases in most countries, but at a heavy cost in lost output, joblessness and social unrest...
Reports of fisticuffs and mass riots in many pubs in the city over this season's baseball champions have distributed the Swami of Swat so strongly that it is time to lay this unrest to rest with the definitive word on this subject...
...Malagasy Republic (formerly the French colony of Madagascar); following a machine-gun ambush of his official limousine; in Tananarive. Lieut. Colonel Ratsimandrava served as Interior Minister under General Gabriel Ramanantsoa, leader of the military junta that took control of the republic in May 1972. After months of unrest among dissident tribesmen, Ramanantsoa resigned on Feb. 5 and the honest, plodding Ratsimandrava took office. His death was announced by a new ruling military committee. It claimed that the short-termed President had been slain by members of the Republican Security Forces, a counterinsurgency outfit dissolved by Ramanantsoa...
...unrest spread beyond Eritrea to Tigre province, just south of Asmara, where guerrillas blew up a bridge and halted a convoy of 50 army tanks bound for the relief of the city. In Addis Ababa, a few skirmishes took place between nervous soldiers and civilians. The government was said to be setting up three concentration camps in the capital in possible preparation for the internment of tens of thousands of Eritreans who live there. In case serious fighting breaks out in the city, the junta was reported to be moving Haile Selassie from the National Palace to a secret hideout...
...units returned to work when ordered to do so, but the 1,200-man radio-patrol force based in downtown Lima held out. The police locked themselves inside the Victoria barracks and refused to leave. Instead of taking the sensible precaution of sending soldiers to protect the city from unrest, Velasco issued ultimatum after ultimatum to the strikers. Then he sent in tanks-Soviet-built T-55 models that smashed down the barracks doors as rangers trained in anti-guerrilla warfare streamed into the building. The battle was quickly over. Some of the defenders were subdued inside the building; others...