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...treasury for six months, at no interest. The unemployment rate among the nation's black workers has already hit 20%; layoffs at the gold mines-which for the moment are maintaining employment-would make it even worse. The joblessness could intensify South Africa's explosive racial unrest...
...Student Unrest. The decree originally was a response to the student unrest and terrorism of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Although West German law already required all civil servants to defend and uphold the constitution, it was argued that new guidelines were required to specifically define "disloyalty." In January 1972, the then Chancellor Willy Brandt endorsed the decree, which barred people from public jobs if they were "members of organizations pursuing anticonstitutional aims...
...Radical unrest has largely subsided in West Germany, but the decree still technically covers all of the country's 3.5 million public service job holders, including railway workers, garbage men and even gravediggers as well as bureaucrats and school teachers...
Dozens of buses were stoned and set afire next morning as the rioting continued, even though 1,500 heavily armed police and auxiliary recruits were on guard in Soweto. Vandalism, looting and random fires caused at least $2.5 million worth of damage. Gradually, the unrest spread to Kagiso, Tembisa and other neighboring townships, forcing police to call for reinforcements from Pretoria. As fears rose that the rioters might break out of police cordons and attack white suburbs, Minister of Police James Kruger invoked a section of the country's Riotous Assemblies Act that forbids all outdoor gatherings without official...
...more plausible explanation for Jamaica's unrest is Manley's efforts to turn the island republic into a socialist state. Even the Prime Minister's supporters concede that the economy is in a shambles. Unemployment is running at about 22%, and is particularly high among urban youth, who police say are guilty of most of the recent murders. The country's foreign exchange earnings, principally from bauxite, sugar and tourism, are down 40 to 60% below last year's total of $400 million, and reserves have dropped from more than $102 million in November...