Word: unrest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These islands of the blest, cheap package tours replaced by politics, rain, unrest...
...destroy both ideals and institutions." Moralism could get out of hand, and keep our government so weak it can't deal with the myriad problems, we face; since "the realities of power ensure that government will never be truly democratic," there is at least the possibility of continued unrest. This caution--this pessimism--is a strong undertow throughout the book...
...moment, Israeli authorities seem to derive a certain relish from the Arab-vs.-Arab unrest. But they realize that a militant fundamentalism, implacably opposed to Israeli control, would make their long-term occupation of the area much more difficult. Says one Israeli official on the West Bank: "If this develops, it will be hell...
Poland's military bosses call Poznan their model city. While the workers of Gdansk, Warsaw and Katowice resisted, rioting and striking, after martial law was declared on Dec. 13, not a ripple of unrest was reported in the industrial center 175 miles west of the capital. Indeed, Zdzislaw Rozwalak, the leader of the local Solidarity chapter, had promptly furnished the state radio with a statement of support for martial law and condemned the union's behavior. Thus the regime of Wojciech Jaruzelski last week confidently chose Poznan as the showcase site for the first officially organized foreign press...
...replaced the Limann government with a Provisional National Defense Council and plans a support system of Libyan-style local "defense committees." U.S. and British officials fear that Rawlings may turn to Libya for help. But no political shift will solve the basic economic problems that are stirring the real unrest in a part of the world where ties with the West are already strained...