Word: unrested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cheered the foreign participants. They refused to stand for the Soviet national anthem, passed out anti-Soviet leaflets, and even hoisted the national flag of independent Lithuania. Most recently, the Soviets dismissed Lithuania Agitation and Propaganda Chief Pranas Mishutis, the man in charge of keeping the lid on Lithuanian unrest...
...harsh treatment of Lithuanian dissenters suggests that the Kremlin views the disturbances as a dangerous precedent for other non-Russian peoples under Soviet rule-notably the Latvians, Estonians and Ukrainians-who are also showing signs of unrest...
...four-man Limnological Institute, which has pioneered the use of rush and reed cultures to purify industrial-waste water. The institutes do no secret research, accept few military or industrial contracts, and can pick their own areas of investigation. Largely government-funded (about 90%), they have experienced little political unrest or "brain drain" of scientists to the U.S. And they have enjoyed a steady increase in funding in the past decade (up 300% to a current budget of $160 million a year...
...heaviest action took place in Belfast's Lower Falls area, where troops and gunmen exchanged 3,000 shots and the I.R.A. used rocket launchers for the first time. The toll: 24 dead (including six soldiers) since the fighting began-or 436 since Ulster's siege of unrest began three years...
...Wouldn't it be just as well if candidates used radio and television to express their ideas rather than direct contact with the public for a few years until this rash of unrest passes...