Word: unrest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cost thousands of jobs, will erode his public support. Communist Leader Alvaro Cunhal has already declared war on what he calls Soares' "policies of national disaster." The question, in the words of one Cabinet minister, "is whether Soares will be able to remain the same after the social unrest begins-as it will when our tough measures begin to take effect...
...simmer of unrest in China, The simmer of unrest in China, the undersputter, is pervasive. There comes first, when one looks for opposition, the old Red Army. Trained in combat, promoted by victory, its leaders were men of capacity and command. Slowly, so as not to disturb a slumbering volcano, the aging commanders are being urged out. Retirement is greased with comforts: full pay, choice of home anywhere in China, honors and consultancies. The murmur of envy puts it that such retired generals are guaranteed fangzi, chezi, haizi ? quarters at least as good as those they enjoyed as commanding...
...debtor is also its most troubled (see box). Brazil owes some $90 billion and is in its third year of a deep recession. The country is promising to undertake tough austerity measures so that it can begin paying off its debt, but those steps are intensifying already serious social unrest. Last week food riots broke out in Rio de Janeiro. Says one U.S. Treasury official: "Brazil is the key to the entire Latin American debt problem...
CHILE. Economic stagnation has triggered the political unrest that has been sweeping Chile in recent weeks. The country is only slowly recovering from the collapse of world copper prices that drove unemployment to 34.6% last year. The government is trying to reschedule $2.5 billion of its nearly $19 billion in foreign loans...
With social unrest growing, the Brazilian Congress seems increasingly likely to reject a presidential decree that, beginning last month, limited cost-of-living wage hikes for all Brazilian workers to 80% of increases in the consumer price index. The IMF had demanded such action as a precondition for further loans. Without such a law, the battle against inflation seems doomed. So far this year the price of bread has gone up 85%, rice 151%, beans 369% and potatoes 498%. Indeed, it may take another Brazilian economic miracle like the one in the 1970s for the country to reduce inflation...