Word: unrest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...arrests and beatings. Near the village of Sinjil, Arab youths stoned Jewish settlers belonging to the religious nationalist Gush Emunim (group of the faithful). The angry Jews invaded the Arab school in Sinjil, seized the principal and marched him to their settlement for "questioning." In the midst of this unrest, the Israeli government established a new "outpost"-the forerunner of a civilian settlement-at Nueima, northeast of Jericho. The settlement will be the 51st on the West Bank, where some 5,000 Jews are now living among 692,000 increasingly hostile Palestinians...
...human rights declarations, laudable in principle but unevenly applied, were unsettling to the Soviets and to several allies as well. Some analysts also believe the human rights statements fed the unrest in Iran...
...largely conservative military leadership into seizing power and cracking down on the Basques, thereby increasing ETA's support in its home provinces and bolstering its cause. The terrorists are probably not powerful enough to set off a widespread revolt on their own, but they can cause considerable unrest, particularly in army and among right-wing groups. At the funeral of General Ortin two weeks ago, a throng of restive officers grabbed the casket and carried it through downtown Madrid. The spectacle greatly embarrassed their commander in chief, King Juan Carlos, 41, who later told a group of generals...
...Labor unrest is hitting Europe. In Britain last week, striking truck drivers disrupted imports and food deliveries. In Spain, state employees briefly shut down the railroads in one of the biggest walkouts since the civil war. French steelworkers struck in Lorraine for a day to protest job cuts. But peace of sorts came to the Ruhr Valley as West German steelworkers voted to end a bitter 45-day strike...
...course, there are other factors. I do not think that the mullahs were triggered by the Soviet Union. However, some trained agitators probably helped fan the flames that already existed even there. No doubt there existed objective reasons for discontent, but the margin between unrest and revolution came at least in part from the outside...