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...What has happened in Bolivia is profoundly meaningful," he said. It showed that revolution can take place relatively peacefully if the army cannot or does not interfere with popular movements. If the army does interfere, unrest may develop into civil...
Crowds gathered to hear official speeches of indignation at the attempt on Bourguiba's life. There seemed little doubt that he still held the nation's basic loyalty, but even his closest friends were concerned at the recent signs of unrest caused by three successive years of drought and an unemployment level of 400,000 out of a population...
Brazil and Argentina, the two biggest nations in South America, are both suffering from the same disease-political unrest based on economic difficulties, as well as (to put it the other way around) economic trouble brought on by politics. Of the two, Brazil's economy is in much the worse shape...
...Labor unrest also took place in Grozny, an oil center in the north Caucasus; Donetsk, center of the Donbas coal fields; Yaroslavl, in the Upper Volga, where workers in a tire factory staged a sitdown strike; and even Moscow, where there were mass protest meetings at the Moskvich compact-car plant. Khrushchev himself seems to have drawn the lesson of these events. Said he last July in his native village of Kalinovka: "We have carried out a great revolution to give the people the good things of life. If these things are not available, people will say: 'What...
Long after President Roosevelt's death in 1945 she remained influential in politics. Speaking on "Unrest Within the Democratic Party" at the Law School Forum in May, 1961, Mrs. Roosevelt called for a "re-alignment based on principles" in the American party system. She told the audience, which greeted her with a standing ovation, that today Democrats are becoming more representative of intellectual and middle-class "suburbia" groups...