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...industrial ministries, the most difficult aspect of restructuring will be to close down unprofitable factories. Although the law now allows bankruptcies, very few have taken place because bureaucrats are loath to reduce their domain and fearful of the unrest that would be caused by throwing employees out of work. Moscow prefers instead to merge unsuccessful enterprises into stronger ones...
...spring of 1970 that Pusey announced his early retirement, a move he says was not prompted by student unrest, but rather by the impending departure of several members of the Harvard Corporation. He left hoping that the University's troubles were nearing an end, that soon "there was going to be some sanity...
Eastern Europe's unpredictable volatility also has implications for the West. If Communism does shuffle slowly offstage as a failed experiment in Poland or Hungary, there is no guarantee it will be replaced by democracy. Without substantial progress toward economic recovery, the odds are high that social unrest and political chaos will lead to a dictatorship of the left or the right. Yugoslavia too is rent by such severe economic disparities and political tensions linked to strident nationalism that the country threatens to disintegrate into warring provinces...
...Washington, perhaps the nation's most distinguished black college, let Atwater know that the past had not been forgotten. Outraged by his appointment in January to the Howard board of trustees, more than 200 students seized the school's main administration building in the most intense burst of campus unrest since the Viet Nam War. Hundreds of other students demonstrated outside, chanting slogans and demanding Atwater's resignation from the board. Four days after the rebellion began, with riot police threatening to storm the building, Atwater stepped down. In a Washington Post piece last week he complained that the students...
...Tibetan capital of Lhasa. Ever since China invaded the mountainous region in 1950, the Tibetans have periodically erupted in violent protest against Communist rule. Last week, after three days of rioting, Chinese authorities imposed martial law and troops armed with automatic weapons ringed the city to quell the unrest. At least 30 people were believed killed and more than 100 were wounded in the ensuing melee...