Word: unrest
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...faith in the system and in American ideals. "I'm not shouting from rooftops to tell people to throw bricks," he says. "I'm old-fashioned enough to think that's not the best way of getting political action." Characteristically, he proposes as solutions to the problem of urban unrest "much much more money" from the federal government and greater sacrifice from the business community...
...swirling unrest, Alexander Dubček entered the fray, carrying the banner of Slovak nationalism. As party boss of Slovakia, he rose at a Central Committee meeting in October and launched a fiery polemic against Novotný for breaking his promises and neglecting the development of Slovakia. In a highly heated exchange, Novotný called Dubček a "bourgeois nationalist," one of the worst insults in the Communist lexicon. Dubček began working behind the scenes to oust Novotný from party leadership, gradually bringing together dissident Slovak leaders, university officials, economists and other liberals. When Novotn...
...hopes of getting the students to return to their classes, Gomulka pledged to "consider" grievances drafted by legitimate student groups, meaning those that met with rectors' permission. More important, he softened as "ill-considered" an antiZionist campaign that had passed off most of the blame for the unrest on Jew ish intellectuals. Gomulka, whose wife is Jewish, promised exit visas to Jews who want to move to Israel and en dorsed the majority of Polish Jews as loyal builders of socialism. In cavalier disregard of deepening unrest among intellectuals, however, he blasted liberal Writers Union members, whose balking...
...beyond this point, the statement that "black communities are demanding that black faces present the questionnaires" leads one to believe that all Harvard needs is black faces to do its bidding in the ghetto. If there were no ghetto or need for correlations about urban unrest would there then be no need for black faculty members...
...feelings were still running high. The Creoles, who make up one-fourth of the island's 770,000 people and are against independence, boycotted the ceremony. The capital was still shrouded in mourning for 24 persons killed in January riots between pro-independence and anti-independence forces. Continuing unrest led Princess Alexandra, who had planned to represent Queen Elizabeth at independence ceremonies, to cancel her visit...