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...when the Socialists came to power in 1981. Although the protesters have remained studiously apolitical, they contend, with some justification, that the government failed to inform or consult the public before announcing the Savary plan. Comparisons with 1968 may as yet be overblown, but the message of the present unrest is no less forceful or urgent...
...week's end, despite some signs of labor unrest, the conference participants had agreed in principle to a new, centralized wage-fixing system. Indeed, the majority signed a far-reaching 55-point communiqué pledging "to work together to meet the challenge of Australia's economic and social crisis." The summit had, it seemed, achieved the spirit, of cooperation that Hawke wanted. Noted Michelle Grattan, political writer for the Melbourne Age: "The breakthrough was in the vibes, not the decisions...
...fearing violence from student protestors during a period of unprecedented unrest over the Vietnam War, the Faculty effectively banned the U.S. military's Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) from Harvard's campus. This year, however, the efforts of students who participate in the program at MIT to gain University recognition for a "Friends of the ROTC" club has sparked renewed debate over the training program's role at Harvard. The ROTC's club appeal, and the resurgent student interest in military training that it represents, makes now a good time for the Faculty to address the real issue behind...
...said to have told Mantarov that the KGB concluded in 1979 that Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Jimmy Carter's Polish-born National Security Adviser, had somehow engineered the election of Pope John Paul II the previous year. Brzezinski's supposed purpose: to use the Pope to inspire further unrest in Poland and eventually to wrench the country out of the Soviet orbit. Mantarov claims that he was told that as the troubles in Poland mounted, and as the Pontiff came to be identified with the budding Solidarity movement, Soviet authorities gave the command to "eliminate" the Pope. They allegedly...
...where it was in 1978. Faced with a drop in oil revenues this year of at least $4 billion, Venezuela has shelved plans for construction of a new railroad, a steel mill and several highways. With an election coming in December, the government is already getting edgy about political unrest. Three journalists were jailed two weeks ago for criticizing the President...