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...Martínez de PerÓn and the leaders of 14 other parties last week. The pact was another step in Alfonsín's drive to maintain national unity at a time when the country is facing an annual inflation rate of 568% and growing labor unrest. Some 400,000 miners, bus drivers, waterworks employees and metal-and grain-workers are currently demanding wage increases...
...people blocked the town's entrance with boulders and then marched on the police and army headquarters. Government forces responded by firing into the crowd. The toll: three dead and more than a dozen wounded. It was only the latest clash in the most serious outbreak of social unrest in 27 years...
Fueled by smouldering unrest, a brushfire of student activism once again swept the Law School campus this year...
...recurring theme in the power struggles between the Corporation and the Overseers of the 18th and 19th centuries was the debate over student morality. The more conservative Overseers generally favored greater restrictions on behavior than the Corporation, but they agreed in a few famous examples of student unrest...
...faculty rejected the Council's proposals, however, unleashing a wave of protest that rivaled the upheavals of a year ago. The proposals had emerged from dialogue with a faculty liaison committee appointed by Law School Dean James Vorenberg '49 to stem the tide of unrest after boycotts, demonstrations, and sit-ins locked the campus last spring. For may, their defeat signaled the failure of student efforts to work within established channels, and previously passive students entered the fray...