Word: unrest
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Jackson's pyrotechnics were the fitting climax to a series-and a season-of explosive unrest in Yankeeland. Even in the glow of victory, half a dozen Yankees want to be traded to other clubs during the offseason. Some of them underscored their discontent by skipping the team's victorious Broadway ticker-tape parade the day following the series...
...Rumania, officials were temporarily successful in stifling news of an outburst of violent labor unrest in the nation's southwest, but last week letters from strikers describing the disturbances reached the West. Some 35,000 miners from the Jiul River basin, which provides 70% of the country's coal supply, went on strike in early August to protest food shortages, unpaid overtime work and a reduction of pension and sickness benefits. The walkout was by far the largest in Rumania since the Communist takeover...
...Ralph D. Abernathy, former head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, who paid an informal visit to Cambridge yesterday, predicted that current unemployment rates could lead to major urban unrest this summer...
...approvingly about having formal links with Jordan, whose ruler, King Hussein, desperately wants peace with Israel. Moreover, it is clearly in the interests of moderate Arab nations that a dangerously radical regime does not emerge in any Palestinian state. A radical Palestine would be as likely to stir up unrest in Jordan and Saudi Arabia, the Arabs' principal bankroller, as in Israel...
...Steven Biko, founder of South Africa's black consciousness movement, died as a result of injuries he received while in detention (TIME, Sept. 26), blacks and whites alike demanded the resignation of Justice Minister James Kruger for his callous handling of the case. At the same time, black unrest was fusing into a sustained campaign of resistance. In Johannesburg's Soweto ghetto, only 1,000 of 27,000 post-primary students and half their teachers showed up to register for the new school year; the dissidents are protesting the inferior system of "Bantu education...