Word: unrest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Authorities detained at least 200 people nationwide, according to Zbigniew Romaszewski, a spokesman for the outlawed Solidarity union. The violent protests came at the end of a week of strikes and the worst labor unrest in Poland since the communist government suspended Solidarity in December 1981 and later declared it illegal...
...hardly obsolete. All of Singer's short fiction, from long-established classics like Gimpel the Fool to the latest story, hot off the presses, is amazingly of a piece. Three basic formulas are constantly repeated. Unrest stirs a rural Polish village, thanks to the mischief of its inhabitants and their attendant demons. An aspiring young author passes his time in Warsaw visiting the Yiddish Writers' Club and storing up everything he hears and does. An older incarnation of the same man, expatriated from Poland and living on Manhattan's Upper West Side, submits willingly to readers and strangers who come...
Fearing that last week's funeral would ignite further unrest, the Israeli army sealed off large parts of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The army also imposed curfews on 21 refugee camps, towns and cities, putting close to 300,000 Palestinians under virtual house arrest. In addition, eight more Palestinians were deported to Lebanon, bringing to 20 the number expelled since the intifadeh (uprising) began last December. Despite the precautions, which included banning most reporters from the territories, clashes between soldiers and Palestinians resulted in five Arab deaths, raising the four-month toll to at least...
...their extra privileges -- special housing, schools and food stores. Automatic bonuses for workers were threatened, which prompted protest strikes. Nationalist outbursts in the Baltic states, protest demonstrations by Crimean Tatars in Moscow and riots in Azerbaijan appeared to encourage those who blamed glasnost for the sudden wave of unrest...
Eisenman, who has been in exile for the past two years, warned that he thinks the Panamanian unrest will escalate. "We are weeks away from a major crisis," Eisenman said...