Word: unrested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...invasion and occupation spontaneously unified the roughly 3 million people of Greek descent in America. Until then, they had been bitterly divided over the dictatorial government in Athens, which ended when the junta resigned in the wake of widespread civilian unrest in Greece after the Cyprus defeat. Greek Americans were outraged by the Turkish aggression, regardless of its justification, and besieged the U.S. Congress with demands that American military aid to Turkey be withheld...
...backed by Palestinian extremists (TIME, July 7). By the time the third round ended last week, after eight days of violence, some 300 people had been killed and 700 wounded. That brought the year's death toll to about 900-the highest casualties in Lebanon since the civil unrest of 1958 that led to the landing of U.S. Marines. Losses to the nation's economy from the troubles this year are estimated at $500 million...
TRUJILLO. Former senior officers of the CIA maintain that neither the agency nor Presidents Eisenhower or Kennedy had anything directly to do with the dictator's death. Officials in the American embassy had tried to persuade Trujillo to resign to end the domestic unrest that the U.S. feared might make the country ripe for Communism. They had also been gingerly in touch with leaders of the political opposition and as a token of the American interest in seeing a change, had provided one faction with three rifles. A group of seven or eight men ambushed Trujillo on the road...
...fuel; trade and commerce have contracted severely because of the prolonged bank holiday, and hundreds of thousands of former government bureaucrats and soldiers are without jobs. While Communist officials have been vowing "to restore production as quickly as possible," unless they do it soon, economic chaos could trigger widespread unrest among the South Vietnamese. There is, however, a question of how long they will remain South Vietnamese. North Viet Nam's National Assembly voted last week to unify all of Viet Nam, with Hanoi as its capital...
...said that the unrest that has accompanied busing in Boston is the "empty desperation of the violent," which be said he has witnessed in the South...