Word: unrest
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...Vietnamese economy is a shambles, and the thousands of refugees who land on other Asian shores every week are visible proof of the country's internal problems and unrest...
...Unrest, protest, massacre...
...April killings climaxed a year of unrest and protest over the big-spending ways of the self-crowned Emperor, a for mer French army sergeant who seized power in a 1965 coup. Although his landlocked, Texas-size country is one of the world's poorest, Bokassa reportedly has been dipping heavily into the public treasury to pay for his six homes in France (including a chateau in the Loire Valley), his three wives, his royal court, and tuition for many of his 35 children at Swiss boarding schools...
...gave a clue to the reason for this autocratic stance in his second letter when he wrote that Harvard "will command much less respect if it takes political stands on matters unrelated to education, especially among businessmen who regard these stands as the product of student protest and campus unrest...
That danger is not so remote. In Tehran, the management of the National Iranian Oil Co. (NIOC) is in tatters. More important, at the refinery in Abadan and the oilfields of Ahvaz, searing unrest among workers could blow up into crippling strikes. TIME Tehran Bureau Chief Bruce van Voorst reports...