Word: unrest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sacred shrine, the Golden Temple. The groups were fighting for the right to rebuild a revered part of the temple complex called the Akal Takht, which was severely damaged in a June 1984 siege by the Indian army. That military action, in which at least 600 Sikhs died, inflamed unrest and ultimately led to Indira Gandhi's assassination...
While the sudden coup next door succeeded without any bloodshed, the unrest inside South Africa continued in fresh spasms of violence. Two white policemen were hacked and bludgeoned to death by a crowd of about 500 blacks when they tried to break up an unauthorized union meeting near Westonaria, a gold-mining complex 25 miles west of Johannesburg. Official reports said a shoot-out occurred between police reinforcements and blacks who grabbed the dead officers' weapons. Seven blacks were killed and at least 40 others wounded in the melee. The violence marked the first time that white police officers have...
...power has always been a lavish spending of the nation's petrowealth. Libya's dependence on foreign capital and technical expertise is also critical. Undermining Khadafy's economic position now by shutting him out of Western markets and investments may be just as good as killing him outright; increasing unrest in Libya caused by escalating hardship might produce the same result. If he fears such an outcome, he might make overtures to Western governments promising to stop his terrorist activities. At the very least, Khadafy might curb his actions in the hope of avoiding more severe reprisals...
Over the past year, however, as violent unrest in the country has increased, members have pressed the unions to become more overtly political. COSATU, the result of four years of painstaking negotiations among the leading black unions, is the most powerful manifestation of this burgeoning political consciousness. Although the new solidarity is still fragile, the giant federation of 34 multiracial unions claims some 450,000 members in the country's most vital industries and clearly has the potential to be a major force in South African affairs. Its leaders have already openly committed themselves to an activist role...
...revolutionary climate in South Africa is fast losing momentum," State President P.W. Botha lifted the five-month-old state of emergency in eight of the 38 areas where it had been imposed. Those areas were mostly rural settlements and had been for the most part untouched by racial unrest, which has claimed more than 900 victims this year. Privately, officials made it clear that unless COSATU leaders control their radicalism, they too could be subjected to detentions and other restrictions...