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...forced the ouster of Prime Minister Mohammed Yusuf, and two years later Yusuf's successor was forced to depart because of similar pressures. Even more disturbing was the indication that two leftist groups (one pro-Peking, the other influenced by Moscow) had played a role in organizing the unrest. Communism has had little or no appeal for the mass of Afghans, but the signs of even slight influence caused the government to tighten up a bill to allow the creation of political parties so as to exclude the Communists...
...privacy and for Ribicoff to speak of "police brutality" and "Gestapo tactics" without violent interruption. As a matter of fact, what legislation have these two, and any others of like voice, drafted or proposed during their careers to alleviate or eliminate any of the causes of our current social unrest? It looks like the sympathetic pursing of their lips was caused by the tart flavor of sour grapes...
Even so, the land passed into 300 years of Habsburg domination. In hope of quelling the country's continuous unrest, Joseph II in 1781 granted an Edict of Toleration, an agreement that gave the people the right to speak their language and to have a measure of autonomy under Bohemian kings. A flowering of art and literature followed. Czech national feelings reached a high pitch in the 19th century, encouraged by a historian named Frantisek Palacky, who emphasized his people's identity by writing about their long struggle for freedom. "The Hussite war," Palacky wrote, "is the first...
...college campuses. Its main accomplishment has been to act as sounding board for the whole spectrum of student complaints. Its annual congress in Manhattan, Kans., last week served the same purpose. And the decibel count at the meeting signaled the almost certain approach of another year of collegiate unrest and uproar...
...year) that was unhealthy for both France and its Common Market trading partners. The output of French factories rose a mere 2.2% in 1967 and, as a consequence, one-fifth of the country's industrial capacity lay idle early this year. The resulting unemployment plainly aggravated the social unrest that welled into revolt during...