Word: unrest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ford is concerned over mounting social unrest as unemployment rises and benefits for the jobless shrink under mounting pressure on benefit funds...
...began last month with a minor dispute over a change in shifts in one Paris mail-sorting station. But by last week France was facing its worst labor unrest since the protests of May 1968 that nearly toppled Charles de Gaulle. The postal spat quickly developed into a strike that spread to the entire mail system, paralyzing thousands of dependent businesses. In the past fortnight meanwhile, coal miners, railway men, electric-utility workers, hospital employees, customs officials, Paris bus drivers and even veterinarians have walked off their jobs for at least a day. Last week Interior Minister Michel Poniatowski outraged...
...signs of unrest clearly indicated that for Valery Giscard d'Estaing, the honeymoon was over. Actually, some observers were surprised that a confrontation between the center-right President and the leftist French unions had been delayed so long. As Finance Minister in the government of the late Georges Pompidou, Giscard was widely famed as an economic wizard-a reputation that was largely responsible for his narrow victory over Socialist François Mitterrand in last May's elections. Since then, despite Giscard's imposition of a classically conservative program of tightening credit, raising some taxes and holding...
...administration had been receiving rumors of unrest in the Chilean military for more than one year," Gerald L. Warren, White House spokesman, told reporters that week. "Aside from these rumors, the President had no advance knowledge of any specific plan for a coup...
...governments of all Western industrial nations face a socioeconomic dilemma: in order to fight inflation and the social disruption that it causes they must restrain demand-and risk triggering a recession that would stir even more social unrest. Last week France went further than any other nation has gone to defuse that danger. At the urging of President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, the Patronat, or federation of French employers, agreed with the country's five major unions on a new plan that in effect will guarantee a full year's pay to any French worker laid...