Word: unrest
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...were able to fool them, even though elements of the rescue force were maneuvering right beside them. The entire task force discussed the regional politics, the American cause, the likely response of the Iranians and the world. They knew they were the vanguard in a new era of unrest. There was the conviction among those men that the nation had to try, that if the U.S. ever stopped doing such things, the future would be even more dangerous...
...Yugoslavia's 22 million people. Another potential trouble spot is the southern province of Kosovo, the country's poorest region, where friction is developing between Serbs and the rapidly exploding ethnic Albanian population. Two months ago, 50 ethnic Albanians in Kosovo were charged with fomenting political unrest. This could conceivably serve as a Soviet pretext for stirring up trouble in Yugoslavia, as could the thinly disguised Bulgarian claims on Macedonia, the country's southernmost republic...
...mayors of Ramallah and Nablus were also threatened by the Israelis with expulsion from the West Bank if they talked to each other or to the press. Israeli officials said the mayors would be held responsible for any unrest in their towns. Censorship was imposed on East Jerusalem's Arabic newspapers, which are circulated throughout the West Bank...
There was an even broader irony in the London embassy takeover. It dramatized the domestic unrest from which the Banisadr government has been trying to divert attention. For six months the authorities in Tehran have concentrated on the international crisis surrounding the American hostages. But that preoccupation has not succeeded in covering up all the serious threats facing the regime, from both the large and rebellious ethnic minorities and Iran's giant neighbor to the north, the Soviet Union...
...appease them. The chief antagonists to emerge from much torchlit huggermugger are Lars-Goren, an idealistic Swedish knight, and the Devil, who decides to help Lars-Goren's kins man Gustav overthrow the occupying Danes and become King of Sweden. Satan's motive is chiefly to perpetuate unrest and chaos. History, after all, has been running on his side: "Magellan had recently circled the globe, opening vast new avenues for greed and war. Europe had more mad kings than sane, and the Devil had both the One True Church and the infant Protestant Revolution in the palm...