Word: unrested
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...Botha could afford to ignore the demands for Mandela's unconditional release, it was because, for all the anger and unrest, he knew that racial revolution was not imminent: the armed forces and police retain overwhelming power. In July the Botha government imposed a state of emergency in many black districts, sending in waves of police to restore order, break up public meetings, block processions and frighten protesters into submission. Then it effectively banned journalists from covering the unrest in the townships, in the futile hope that the protests would die when the images faded from the world's television...
Until now, South African whites, who for the most part live in segregated enclaves that exclude blacks, have been well insulated from such violence. Indeed, of the 850 South Africans killed in the country-wide unrest in 1985, only 15 have been white civilians. While many whites have been concerned about the black unrest and attendant violence, few felt immediately threatened. The Sanlam shopping center bombing has shaken that confidence...
...against apartheid. One of the government's most visible white opponents, she had been arrested several times for attending illegal gatherings with blacks and for entering black townships without permission. Blackburn was often the only white to attend mass funeral rallies for blacks who had died in the racial unrest of the past 16 months, and last week blacks paid tribute to her. "Africans in this country are walking tall on the road she has blazed," Black Activist Mkhuseli Jack told mourners who gathered inside the church for the 90-minute service. Outside, in an emotional farewell, some...
Blackburn's and Bishop's deaths tragically concluded a particularly turbulent year for South Africa. In all, some 850 Honor guard at Molly Blackburn's funeral people, most of them black, were killed in violence generated by unrest related to the struggle to end apartheid (see chart). Unhappily, 1986 got off to an equally bloody start. On Jan. 1 alone, there were 16 reported deaths. All of the victims were nonwhites and all of the incidents were fueled by racial conflicts...
...quickly appointed long-standing family retainers and technocrats to fill the vacant posts, offered no explanation for his actions. But he was clearly reacting to the unusual restiveness among Haiti's citizens, and to a threatened cutoff of much needed U.S. aid following bloody government clampdowns on civil unrest...