Word: unrest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bozzotto said that since March, employees of many restaurants in the Cambridge area have expressed interest in joining the union, which also represents the Harvard food services employees. "There seems to be great unrest in Cambridge among restaurant workers," he said...
...against the police." Lord Scarman concedes that while "institutional racism" does not exist in Britain, "racial disadvantage and its nasty associate racial discrimination have not yet been eliminated. They poison minds and attitudes. They are, and so long as they remain, will continue to be, a potent factor of unrest." Another incendiary element is Britain's continuing recession. More than half the blacks under age 19 in Brixton are jobless. To ignore such economic realities, writes Scarman, "is to put the nation in peril...
...actual source of the recent Central American unrest is the oppression and misery of those people--not Cuban intervention, Regalado said, adding "the fact that the administration is not addressing the real issue means the problem will not be solved...
Though it was the first nationwide walkout since March 27, last week's action seemed much like the countless other strikes that have punctuated more than a year of Polish labor unrest and political turmoil. But there was one key difference: General Wojciech Jaruzelski, the nation's Premier, who had just taken over the party leadership, had sent soldiers throughout the country to guard against economic disruptions and "provocations...
...face of the persistent unrest, some observers feared that the troops deployed last week might ultimately be used to restore order by force. Said a West German specialist in Eastern European affairs: "Part of the army remains in the barracks, but another part is being converted into an instrument for countering civil disobedience and maintaining law and order." Noting Jaruzelski's past refusals to turn the military against the Polish people, other analysts doubted that he would do so now. Observed a U.S. State Department official: "Jaruzelski wanted to give a hint to the people-and the party-that...