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...Belgrade half a million resentful Serbs chanting "Kosovo is Serbian!" demanded a drastic expansion of their control over the province and stiff retaliatory measures against the ethnic Albanian majority. The spiraling unrest drove Raif Dizdarevic , leader of Yugoslavia's collective presidency, to dispatch paramilitary units and tanks into Kosovo while banning all public gatherings. The unrest also exacerbated the rift between Serbia and the republic of Slovenia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yugoslavia: Steps Toward The Abyss | 3/13/1989 | See Source »

...last film in the series, The Old Maid is directed by Servan Marinescu and cinematography is by Vlad Paunescu. The drama unfolds against a backdrop of growing worker unrest prior to the economic crisis in Romania in 1933. The plot centers around the isolation and loneliness of a dressmaker in Bucharest. The Old Maid shows Sunday night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Art on Campus | 3/10/1989 | See Source »

...solution appeared in 1978 in a plan hoped to counteract the damaging laissez-faire legacy of the 1960s. A Harvard curriculum liberated by a decade of student unrest--following a trend that had swept colleges from coast to coast--had become by the mid-1970s incoherent and "soft", offering courses such as "the aesthetics of film comedy" and "the civilization of continental and island Portugal" to fulfill humanities requirements, according to a contemporary article in the Saturday Review...

Author: By Carolyn J. Sporn, | Title: Realities of a Harvard Education | 3/10/1989 | See Source »

Stroessner toppled Federico Chaves in 1954. The last unrest in the military occurred in 1962, when a cadet was slain outside the capital...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Paraguayan President Forced to Quit | 2/4/1989 | See Source »

...sixth of the population lives below the poverty level. Supporters of Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic hailed the resignations as a victory in their drive to change the constitution. Montenegrins identify very closely with the Serbians, considering them almost cousins. Montenegro's rebellion is expected to intensify economic unrest and rekindle tension between Serbia and the northern republics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yugoslavia: Blows Against The Party | 1/23/1989 | See Source »

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