Word: unrest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some college officials tell it, the student "revolution" is dying or dead. According to Chicago's Urban Research Corp., which monitors student unrest, that is anything but true. In fact, major campus disruptions have increased this year to a rate of more than one per day. Last week, as the spring riot season neared, the tumult worsened at troubled campuses across...
...definitive causes of the chaos is the intransigence of the wielders of political power. Some of the targets of trashing (from Krackerjacks to Design Research) suggest a reaction against the materialism and commercialism pervading our culture. The malaise of decadent affluence, which underlies the recent history of American unrest, is too diffuse to direct blame or formulate demands. Other factors behind the riot-thrill-seeking, idle curiousity, or free shots at expensive store merchandise-are difficult to reduce to excuses or solutions. But they merely fanned the original spark, which is the product of the infuriating indifference of a power...
...large. This support is the only real safeguard against wholesale political repression. If the New Left should have learned anything in its short history. it is not to rely on liberal politicians to accomplish its ends. Without a general improvement of Americans political consciousness, politicians will continue to use unrest to their own ends. Small groups using pressure tactics to end the war are engaging in the same sort of power play that today's politicians...
...February, the governors of Cambodia's 19 provinces met in Phnom-Penh. As they reported, one by one, on their problems, it slowly became apparent that unrest extended over most of the nation - and that the chief source of the trouble was the North Vietnamese presence. Lon Nol and Sirik Matak decided that something had to be done to drive home the seriousness of the situation to both the wandering Sihanouk and the North Vietnamese...
...months. In early 1969, a shaky coalition government took power in West Bengal, the most turbulent of India's 17 states and the one in which Calcutta lies. Since then, against a backdrop of bitter political strife stirred up by the coalition's strong Communist faction, unrest, violence and crime have been increasing. In the past year, the state has had 584 murders, one-fourth of them in Calcutta. Never the safest place on earth, the teeming metropolis of 8,000,000 has become a city of fear. Aside from the 200,000 ragged Calcuttans who sleep...