Word: unrest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...demonstrating students in your photo of the racial unrest at Cornell University in April 1969 [April 16], I was disappointed that you made no effort to explain the fundamental reasons why those troubled events occurred...
...Moreover, bureaucratic hassling of Soviet Jews who apply for exit visas has declined dramatically. It may be that the Soviets now would simply be glad to get rid of the problem. By letting some dissidents leave, U.S. officials suggest, the Soviets can eliminate them as focal points for unrest. Similar reasoning may have helped persuade the Kremlin to permit freer emigration by Jews. Said Adam Ulam, a Russian expert at Harvard: "From the Soviet point of view, once you cannot shoot people on a large scale, they might as well be allowed to migrate...
...Chase Manhattan have huge loans out to India, Pakistan, Turkey and many other countries. Fears are rising that sooner or later some borrowers will not be able to afford even their interest payments. The threat is not simply of defaults leading to instability, but of worsening hunger and unrest among the world's more than 1 billion subsistence-level people...
...small number of faculty members had come to perceive that threat well before the spring of 1969. During the previous fall, they began to meet weekly to voice worries about the Faculty's growing inability to contend with campus unrest. The meetings were held in secret--usually at a faculty member's house--until the tumultuous events of April forced the group into the open...
Another long-range effect of the strike, according to many faculty members, was the time it took away from scholarship. "Attention was so diverted to all of those committees and commissions that many professors couldn't produce much on their own," says Maass, who claims that campus unrest affected productive scholarship for five years or more. "Some Faculty members got very sidetracked--they spent a lot of time on issues they didn't known much about," May says...