Word: unrestful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decades the Soviet people accepted the situation in silence. But glasnost has made them less afraid to speak out. Citizens worried about the environment are demonstrating by the thousands and contributing to political unrest in the Baltic States. Elsewhere, budding environmental groups have even sponsored candidates for city elections...
...unrest in Azerbaijan was reportedly set off by Armenian plans to build a factory in Nagorno-Karabakh. "It's not their territory," said an Azerbaijani official. "Why should they be allowed to build a factory there? Who gave them permission?" Armenian officials said they were simply acting on Moscow's plans to discourage ethnic unrest by strengthening the economy of the impoverished region...
South Africa's government and foreign journalists have been at swords' points since 1986 laws declaring a state of emergency squelched most reporting on racial unrest. So Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha should hardly have been surprised when the Foreign Correspondents Association's annual banquet last week turned into an angry slanging match. Botha gave as good...
Also convicted of treason was the Rev. Thomas Manthatha, an activist in an area called the Vaal Triangle south of Johannesburg where the first wave of unrest erupted in September...
...year -- but because the government's move was so obviously aimed at Solidarity, it threatened to set off a fresh round of political turmoil. The maneuver raised further doubts about whether the government would stick to the offer it made in August to Solidarity in exchange for ending labor unrest: "round-table" meetings during which the legalization of Solidarity could be discussed...