Word: unrest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jaruzelski's "liberalization" proposal amounts to taking back with one hand what he was giving with the other. The ban on public gatherings, for example, will be lifted, but the penal code has now been amended to make it illegal to "incite public unrest." The punishment for the new crime: up to three years in prison. In addition, it is illegal to "collect" antistate publications; under martial law it was only illegal to print or distribute them. Similarly, the routine tapping of telephone conversations will be suspended. But the government will retain the right to tap phone calls...
...scale that De la Madrid must carry out would risk provoking social upheaval. But in Mexico's case there is another danger, the possibility of tearing the country's unique political fabric in such a way as to limit the P.R.I.'s ability to cope with unrest...
...preoccupation with the political picture in Southwest Asia is likely to draw attention away from the situation inside Pakistan. Though Zia promised elections when he overthrew the government of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in 1977, he has refused to set a specific date for fear of civil unrest and has shunted potential military rivals to the sidelines. But countless Pakistanis still hold him responsible for Bhutto's execution by hanging in 1979 after a show trial. Bhutto's Radcliffe-educated daughter Benazir, 29, remains under house arrest because her public appearance anywhere in Pakistan could instantly send thousands...
Otherwise, the Begin government did not fare well last week. Shareholders of Israel's 34-year-old national airline, El Al, which has long been plagued by deficits and labor unrest, voted to dissolve the company. Professors at Tel Aviv University were on strike, Foreign Ministry employees were threatening to stage a walkout, and truck drivers, angry about new taxes, were trying to block the main highway between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem...
RIVERSIDE., Calif.--In a protest reminiscent of the student unrest during the 1960s, approximately 200 students at the University of California at Riverside (UCR) last month staged a rally to fight the proposed dismantling of the Ethnic Studies programs...