Word: unrest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fiercely proud, tribally insular Afrikaner elite faces an increasingly irreconcilable dilemma: how to avoid massive civil unrest and bloodshed without relinquishing at least some power to the overwhelmingly nonwhite majority. The 2½-year-old government of Prime Minister P.W. Botha, 65, has tried to make a beginning by limiting discriminatory practices like segregation at public facilities, lifting bans against mixed sports and recognizing some black trade unions. But even these tentative reforms have angered many whites and set off a spasm of soul searching over the future course of the country that provides so much chromium, manganese, platinum...
Despite mounting domestic unrest, however, South Africa is still far more stable than pre-Zimbabwe Rhodesia, where blacks succeeded in establishing a government in 1980. The country is also far better equipped to withstand international pressure intended to force it to change...
...week had begun with some other troubling news. Two former Cabinet members under investigation for corruption-ex-Foreign Trade Minister Jerzy Olszewski, 60, and ex-Construction Minister Edward Barszcz, 53-committed suicide. Meanwhile, there were signs of a possible new wave of unrest as thousands of students marched to demand the release of political prisoners. Yet all other cares seemed to pale before the loss of the prelate whom one weeping woman described as "our strength through all these years-he was our shepherd...
Perhaps, this wide diversity of students and their interests and pursuits is the seed for their characterization as "the silent generation," a term habitually strung around the necks of college students during the 1950s, most often to remark on the sharp difference between their tranquility and the campus unrest of the 1960s and early 1970s. Members of the class of 1956 say that if they were silent, it was because they had "nothing to beef about"--there were no wars, almost no public threat after the close of the McCarthy hearings, and plenty to keep people busy at Harvard...
...meeting. Logau's curiosity about the meeting proved even stronger than his scorn for the assembled poets. Their local surroundings were too constricting. No business transaction, however intricate, no love affair, however diverting, could resist the force that drew them together. Moreover, the peace negotiations brought increasing unrest. No one wanted to be by himself...