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...course, the 1969 unrest would have made the first term difficult for any dean taking over that year...
CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS HAVE become fashionable among China's smart, urban set. Young men and women hold parties, exchange presents and finish up the night at local discos. This Christmas, however, such merrymaking was condemned. The Ministry of Public Security reportedly identified Christmas as a day for potential unrest because the celebrations bring groups of people together. The Workers' Daily, one of China's government-owned newspapers, criticized what it called the "Christmas craze" and gave a stiff warning to youths who "madly go after Western life-styles...
These are troubling times in France, and there may be worse to come. With Chirac promising two years of belt tightening in order to shrink the government's huge deficits, the country faces the grim prospect of continued high unemployment and a paroxysm of social unrest that some fear could match the upheaval of May 1968. Chirac is betting that a dose of fiscal discipline will be rewarded by the return of strong growth, jobs and public confidence. If he loses that wager, disaffected voters may turn to the opposition Socialists in the 1998 parliamentary elections, which would produce...
...TIME THE MEDIA STOPPED PORTRAYing unrest in the West as coming from a few extremists. The vast majority of people in rural states are directly affected by mandates from people who don't have firsthand experience. The feelings of alienation are pervasive out here. Members of the media need to spend a substantial amount of time on a working ranch and gain some practical knowledge about the field. I think they would see that ranchers are extreme environmentalists and their use of the land spans generations, not weekends. RENEE L. DANIELS, Harrison, Montana...
...Revolution in 1966, Jiang believes only a strong hand can stave off chaos in China. Yet time may be running out on that formula. Even now, says Mineo Nakajima, a Sinologist at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, "Jiang is using the police and security forces to control social unrest, but he will have difficulty if it continues to escalate." The country's volatile economic situation and its corruption accentuate the widespread sense of unfairness, feeding the "red-eye disease"--envy of those who are getting more, faster. And while China's masses are more interested in a higher standard...