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...came from opposite ends of the ideological spectrum, but who shared an inability to address the profound identity crisis that France has been undergoing. By now, French voters seem to recognize that without a major course correction, the country has little to look forward to other than growing social unrest and long-term economic decline...
...ranching, where rising interest rates and falling prices for agricultural goods were pushing many of their neighbors toward bankruptcy. "My father didn't realize that he was moving his family into a region whose economic base was, in fact, being devastated," says Chai. That economic anxiety, plus growing unrest among Native Americans on nearby Indian reservations, only deepened a long-standing resentment of outsiders and nonwhites. "We soon discovered every law contained two parts, the part that was written down and the part that could be enforced...
UNHAPPY START Nigerians may have elected President Umaru Yar'Adua in a landslide, but corruption remains endemic. Rioting resulted in 65 deaths. Crude-oil prices surged worldwide on fears that supplies from Africa's largest oil-producing state would be disrupted. Yar'Adua will face unrest; for starters, he must dump the zip-up bags...
...Union are going to rise to riches under the Gorbachev plan, which has already shown it has no answers to the country's problems. The requirements for a better national life are a free economy and a democratic system. Without both, the future can only offer a cycle of unrest and repression. The more violence the state uses to preserve itself, the worse the economy will become and the less help the rest of the world will be willing to offer. As Gorbachev moves to the conservative camp, his course does not lead toward stability, but crisis...
...early 1990s, immigrant protests in Washington and New York City caused activists to argue that giving noncitizens the vote would help quell unrest. The idea fizzled everywhere but in Takoma Park and five smaller suburbs of Washington. For the 1993 election, noncitizens voted in Takoma Park at a 35% rate, better than the 30% for citizens. But the noncitizen figure plummeted over the following seven elections. City clerk Jessie Carpenter speculates that "early on, there was more interest because [voting] was new." She doesn't believe that resurgent concern over illegal immigrants has driven noncitizens from the polls...