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...escu's emphasis on industrialization has produced a phenomenal annual growth rate of nearly 12%, but Bucharest cupboards are bare. Peasants are so wretchedly poor that some villages have no shops and people live by primitive forms of barter. In recent months, there have been increasing reports of unrest and even strikes...
During the past 100 years, Japan has been a major center of unrest in East Asia. In particular, following the depression of 1919 when the world saw the emergence of blocs, Japan was swept by a strong feeling of uneasiness, frustration and estrangement from the rest of the world. Recently there appears to have been a revival of something like the old sense of isolation, because the United States has led the other Western powers in "ganging up" on Japan--forcing it to float...
...Temper. In fact Hoover spurned some orders from Presidents. He chaired a committee under Nixon in 1970, for example, that explored new tactics to investigate espionage, racial unrest, campus disorders and antiwar radicals. He was the lone dissenter when representatives of the CIA, the National Security Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency urged that agents be allowed to expand surveillance to break in or otherwise "surreptitiously" enter the residences of suspects and examine personal papers or other documents. The White House approved the tactic and ordered its use, but Hoover continued to protest?and the order was finally abandoned...
...Union drive was conducted in a politically charged atmosphere in which several highly charged issues were vying for prominence. The Gulf Oil stock dispute and opposition to the bombing escalation in Indochina sparked a mood of general unrest which nicely complemented the Union's efforts--especially because the Union leadership aligned itself with the other efforts...
...fight for a socialist Chile is far from won. The Opposition is still strong enough to make passage of Popular Unity legislation difficult. And upper and middle class opposition is fostering unrest in its effort to impede the transition to Socialism...