Word: unrested
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...blacks into conflict, the disturbance rumbled into rock-throwing disorder that soon exploded into almost a week of looting, arson and assault. With entire blocks reduced to ash and rubble, the name Watts came to signify not just a black ghetto in south-central Los Angeles but black unrest across the U.S. By the time troops and police brought peace to what had become a 46.5-sq.-mi. war zone, the toll was tragic: 34 dead, 1,032 injured, 3,952 arrested, some 600 buildings ravaged, property loss around $40 million...
...increasingly popular Conservative Party has eclipsed the Herstigte (Reformed) National Party. Established in 1969, it is unabashedly racist and exclusively Afrikaner. H.N.P. Leader Marais, 62, says South Africa's unrest could be quelled if the police would only round up "layabouts" in black townships and send them off to labor colonies. "If you're proud of being a white man and you recognize the divinely ordained differentiation between the races," he says, "you're accused of being a racist." The H.N.P, which received 14.1% of the vote in the 1981 national elections, is not represented in Parliament. Even further right...
...imposition of media restraints on Nov. 2, the average daily toll last week rose above five. The statistic was a sharp challenge to the government's contention that without television and camera crews present to incite publicity-hungry blacks to violent heroics, the disturbances would quiet down. As unrest flared in Queenstown and Mamelodi, two black areas that had been relatively calm, the protesters seemed to be indifferent to the absence of reporters...
...press restrictions have, however, created another side effect. With reporters mostly barred from entering the townships to cover the unrest, many have poured their energies into chasing down rumors. Word had it last week that Nelson Mandela, the imprisoned leader of the outlawed African National Congress who has been serving a life sentence since 1964, might soon be released and deported to Lusaka, Zambia, where the A.N.C. has its headquarters. The reports were fueled largely by the fact that the 67-year-old Mandela, who underwent prostate surgery four weeks ago, had not yet been returned from a hospital...
...eldest son of a well-to-do landowner, Deng grew up in a period of violent unrest, climaxed but not ended by the revolution of 1911 in which Sun Yat-sen brought down the imperial Qing dynasty. When Deng was about 15, his father enrolled him in one of the best secondary schools in the city of Chongqing. A hardworking student, Deng followed a curriculum that enabled him at 16 to enter a program providing an opportunity to work and study in France. Despite an anti-Western wave then simmering in China, Deng and many others of his generation jumped...