Word: unrest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...government has reacted to even the mildest episodes of unrest by calling out legions of police. After responding to the worldwide condemnation of apartheid by hinting that genuine reform was on the way, it abruptly reversed itself in Botha's blunt reaffirmation of the present system. It fought a school boycott in the black township of Soweto two weeks ago by arresting more than 700 black youngsters, many of them no more than eight or ten years old. Last week, when Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu's son Trevor, 29, expressed his indignation that a nine-year-old was being brought...
Botha: Yeah, you're probably right. It's just all this unrest makes me want to rest all the more. Maybe Ron will invite me to the ranch. We could soak in some rays, sip tropical drinks and talk about reforming this country in a gradual way. It seems so strange to me that all these chaps are so angry...
Following months of heightened violence and unrest, South Africa's white minority government declared a national alert nine days ago. The state of emergency gave authorities broad police powers, which they have used to jail almost 1000 Blacks and opposition leaders...
...suffered and finally collapsed with the fighting in that region and Israeli occupation of what had been Shiite land. Thus the majority of Lebanese Shiites have been reduced to conditions of economic and social hardship by the militry operations Israel has carried out in Lebanon; combined with the political unrest of the region in general, prospects for the Shiite population of southern Lebanon in the last few years have looked rather bleak...
...members of different social, religious and ethnic groups coexisted in relative peace and co-operation. The minor outbreaks of violence in 1860 and 1985 obviously reflected the difficulties of managing a heterogeneous population; but given these difficulties the history up to 1975 appears admirable and even inspiring. The present unrest in Lebanon has come about not only because of its heterogeneous population but also as a direct result of foreign influences and intervention, particularly on the parts of Israel and Syria...