Word: unrestful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...extraordinary purge reflected the discontent that has seethed within the lower echelons of the armed forces since the 1986 ouster of dictator Jean- Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier. Two weeks ago, the unrest exploded when noncommissioned officers toppled Lieut. General Henri Namphy as Haiti's leader and installed Lieut. General Prosper Avril as President. The coup grew out of grievances that ranged from bad food to military tolerance of the murder of civilians by thugs and members of the Tonton Macoutes, the secret police who terrorized Haitians during the 28-year dynasty begun by Duvalier's father Francois ("Papa Doc") Duvalier...
Last week Soviet troop planes swooped into Yerevan, capital of the Armenian republic. The soldiers who alighted and began patrolling the streets with tanks and armored vehicles were charged with a delicate mission: to calm the latest and most volatile outburst of ethnic unrest so far in Armenia and the % neighboring republic of Azerbaijan. The show of force indicated that Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev was eager to halt the regional conflict, which has become an embarrassing distraction from his goal of reforming Soviet political and economic life, as well as a potential weapon in the hands of his enemies...
...unrest is placing Gorbachev in an increasingly difficult position. If the Soviet leader meets Armenian demands, he risks fanning nationalist sentiments that smolder across the country. But if he cannot resolve the dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh, opponents may argue that the strife exposes the dangers of letting Soviet citizens speak their minds so freely. Both sides may have a point. As Armenian protesters continued to speak out last week, some went so far as to call for Armenian secession from the Soviet Union unless Nagorno-Karabakh can be annexed...
...economies. Not only might political liberalization go hand in hand with economic decentralization, but greater prosperity may be an antidote to the kind of crises that have all too often brought in Soviet tanks in the past. Gorbachev has his own reasons for wanting to avert another explosion of unrest in, say, Poland, since his conservative comrades would relish proof that reform breeds anarchy...
...report that reached the world, stirring fears of more unrest, told of some 50 bombs, one coming within 10 yds. of the torchbearer's path. The Games may tell the world of South Korea's modern miracle, but the Western press seems unable to understand the realities of ritual...