Word: unrest
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Much modern intelligence work is concerned not with military plans or industrial blueprints but with political information that can help the Kremlin zero in on targets of opportunity abroad. The Soviets may not be the initiators of global unrest, but they do their best to exploit it. KGB agents posted in the Third World alert Moscow to signs of political turmoil that could be fanned into "wars of national liberation." It is difficult to determine how critical a role KGB intelligence plays when the Politburo decides which rival political faction to back in a regional conflict. But it may have...
...their contents has been published in Israeli newspapers. In one memorandum, Eitan recommended expulsion from the West Bank for convicted demonstrators and stone throwers. He also called for "preventive arrests," harassment of suspected troublemakers, punishment for the parents of teen-age protesters and economic sanctions against villages where unrest occurred. He advocated the building of a "detention-exile camp" where suspects would be held during interrogation. He wrote that residents of Jewish settlements on the West Bank should carry arms and open fire when attacked, and that this policy "should be made clear and publicized among the Arab residents...
...Ehrlich did not compare the effectiveness of the death penalty with that of particular prison terms; his formula does not work if the years between 1965 and 1969 are omitted; and in accounting for the increase in homicides during the '60s, he neglects the possible influences of racial unrest, the Viet Nam War, a loosening of moral standards and increased handgun ownership...
BLEARY-EYED from staring at microfilm, I got home and turned on the TV to watch "the second day of racial unrest in Miami." The crowds of Blacks protesting the killing of Johnson had been largely dispersed. Men wearing gas masks ran around with rifles, lobbing gas grenades. Helicopters circled overhead. A convoy of jeeps rolled down the street. The Newsface came on and reported. "President Reagan said today that there is no room for violence in the streets of America." You could picture him saying the words. It was almost funny...
Even an emotionally disturbed man like Mayer can perceive that Dense Pack and the MX are not the antidotes to the world's unrest...