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...oilworkers' walkout climaxed two months of labor unrest that has spread to nearly every sector of the economy. Demands ranged from pay hikes to compensate for Iran's oil-fueled inflation (officially pegged at 50%) to political reforms, an end to martial law and the release of all remaining political prisoners. Stung by a strike that involved 1 million civil servants and government workers, authorities by and large have acted swiftly to satisfy many of the grievances. Government workers were granted wage increases ranging from 25% to more than 100% as well as such fringe benefits as subsidized...
Many workers seized on the unrest to press for specific noneconomic reforms as well. Employees at major banks, which have been a frequent target of fire bombs and arson by antigovernment demonstrators, walked out, demanding that they be given protective security. The press, which was partly unshackled last month, successfully won an end to all censorship. Employees of the government-financed National Iranian Radio and Television network, who struck for the second time last week, demanded-and got-Premier Jaafar Sharif-Emami's assurance that there would be no more government interference. Workers at one Tehran daily even struck...
Najafi did not say how many persons would be freed on Dec. 10, the day the United Nations celebrates human rights. It appeared that persons jailed for inciting public unrest in the nationwide demonstrations that have killed 1 000 people since January would be released, but not those convicted of violent politically motivated acts...
...late spring in 1980. Throughout France, unemployed workers stage factory sit-ins. Thousands of squatters move into unoccupied buildings. Corsica and Brittany are veritable battlegrounds as separatists intensify terrorist campaigns. The unrest stems from widespread disenchantment with President Valery Giscard d'Estaing's economic policy, which has produced record levels of inflation and unemployment. At 2 a.m. on May 20, a telephone rings in the Elysee Palace. "This is not a joke," says a stern voice. "Please warn the President that if by 6 a.m. he has not freed the Corsican and Breton fighters arrested two days...
...never became fully operational, because of theft, widespread mismanagement and frequent breakdowns in equipment. Zambia, already suffering from falling world copper prices, found it increasingly difficult to get the metal to markets. Skyrocketing prices and continual shortages of such vital goods as soap, matches and cooking oil created popular unrest and encouraged political opposition to Kaunda's less-than-democratic regime...