Word: unrest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...millions of his black countrymen and to millions of other people around the world, Mandela, who has been locked up for nearly 26 years, remains a potent figurehead in the struggle toward a postapartheid future in South Africa. Jailed in 1962 for leaving the country illegally and inciting unrest, the symbolic leader of the African National Congress was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1964 for sabotage and plotting to overthrow the government. Since undergoing a prostate operation in November 1985, he has been held in Pollsmoor's hospital wing. Each year he is allowed 30 visits of 40 minutes ; apiece...
P.R.I. officials seemed unconcerned by the unrest. Convinced that time is their ally, they predicted that the various opposition leaders would turn to fighting one another, thus leaving the ruling party in peace. "With each passing day," said Juan Enriquez, a Salinas campaign aide, "the situation becomes more relaxed." So does Salinas. By midweek he had abandoned his command post at party headquarters to begin preparing for his inauguration, scheduled...
While La Prensa and Radio Catolica were being silenced, Foreign Minister Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann summoned U.S. Ambassador Richard Melton to his office. Melton, a career diplomat who arrived in Managua three months ago, listened as D'Escoto accused the U.S. embassy of fomenting unrest and then gave the Ambassador and seven other U.S. diplomats three days to leave the country...
...what the officials could not have foreseen was the chilling effect of the civil unrest that has exploded in Israel since December. Rioting Palestinians in the occupied territories have been stoning Israeli soldiers, and the soldiers have been fighting back -- with much of the action flashing on television screens around the world. Although the violence has been largely limited to the West Bank and Gaza, many potential tourists see a country clouded by tear gas and moral ambiguities and are choosing to stay away. Tourism since April is 24% lower than in the same quarter last year. Hundreds of charter...
...hand I was afraid that maybe my Spanish wouldn't be good enough or that I had completely misinterpreted Mexican history and culture and would perpetrate all sorts of social faux pas. On the other hand, I was thrilled to be finally entering the heart of an area whose unrest and depression interested...