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...Unrest in the Indian state of Punjab took a dramatic turn last week. Thousands of militant Sikhs overwhelmed police barricades and tried to storm the state legislature in the city of Chandigarh. Paramilitary police drove the rioters off with tear gas and gunfire, killing two and injuring...
...cutting back the tight security measures that have seriously polarized his country seemed even less assured. Before the government released more than 300 detainees still held under the emergency provisions, he said he would seek new legislation that would "enable the authorities to deal with continued incidents of unrest." The State President also set an Aug. 1 deadline to begin implementation of a United Nations independence plan for the South Africa-controlled territory of South West Africa, or Namibia. Botha made it clear, however, that the plan is still contingent on the withdrawal of Cuban troops from Angola...
South Africa has suffered 18 months of riots and other violent protests, during which a total of some 1,200 people have died. The unrest began after the Botha government pushed through constitutional changes that created separate legislative chambers for whites, coloreds and Indians, while excluding blacks. Police and other security forces, who already enjoyed ample authority to conduct arbitrary searches, seizures and arrests under the country's normally severe security laws, were granted even more extensive powers. Nearly 8,000 people, about 2,000 of them under the age of 16, were arrested under these emergency provisions...
...think that a lot of the unrest that was in the press caused a lot of students who would complete [their applications] between January and February not to," Director of Admissions Dick Jaeger told The Dartmouth, the campus daily...
Even though other Latin American nations are in somewhat better shape than Mexico, they contend that over the long haul the debt burden could cripple their economies, stir social unrest and conceivably bring down their shaky governments as well. Declared Argentine Foreign Minister Dante Caputo last week: "This debt is the epicenter in the fragility of our democratic systems...