Word: unrest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...down by no less an authority than the Federal Bureau of Investigation. William C. Sullivan, the bureau's No. 3 man, said that there was "no centralized conspiratorial plot stemming from the Communist Party" behind the campus uprisings, although, he said, the Communists had tried to exploit the unrest. And the FBI investigation of the Kent State killings discloses that the Ohio National Guardsmen who opened fire, killing four students, were not surrounded by demonstrators and could have controlled the situation without shooting...
Common Element. The Caribbean region is being swept by its worst social unrest since the trade union troubles a generation ago. "In the face of rising unemployment and increasing social problems," says Lynden O. Pindling, the black Prime Minister of the Bahamas, "the reincarnated forces of the 1930s have stepped onto the 1970 scene and are moving like a mighty avalanche. This avalanche is called Black Power -the Caribbean variety...
...THERE are several reasons why The Strawberry Statement and its counterpart, Getting Straight, do not explain the "youth culture," the "campus unrest," or any of various movements which people refer to as "the revolution...
Joseph Rhodes, a Junior Fellow at Harvard and the only student member of the Presidential Commission on Campus Unrest. this weekend urged the commission to investigate the recent killings and disturbances at Lawrence, Kansas...
...peace candidates in the November elections? No one can say for sure, but on early form there is a good chance that they will have considerable impact, at least in numbers. Through the American Council on Education, Vanderbilt Chancellor Alexander Heard, President Nixon's special adviser on campus unrest, commissioned a Louis Harris poll on student political intentions. It found 65% of college students convinced that working to elect better public officials is the most effective way to do something about solving the nation's problems. Nearly the same number, 63%, reject violence as a last resort...