Word: unrestful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...occupied territories, the uprising showed no signs of letting up. Last week's rioting, the worst in six months, left three Palestinians dead, including a nine-year- old Arab girl, and some 300 injured, many of them from beatings. The Palestinian death toll after nine months of unrest...
...protests were the first since last spring, when strikers plunged the country into the most widespread labor unrest since the tumult that spawned Solidarity in 1980. In response, authorities initially cut off food supplies to workers occupying a mine near Jastrzebie. But by week's end, as the unrest spread, the government's National Defense Committee threatened "appropriate decisions" and joint units of soldiers and military police patrolled Silesia...
Mandela's continued imprisonment poses a dilemma for Pretoria, which fears that his release could set off widespread black unrest. "Humanitarian considerations must always be weighed against the possibility that civil uprising, violence and terrorism could follow," said Information Minister Stoffel van der Merwe. At least one progovernment voice disagreed. Asked Beeld, the country's largest Afrikaans-language daily: "Do we really want to imprint into our history that we let an old man die in jail while there was the opportunity to negotiate with him on the aspirations of his people...
After five months of ethnic unrest in the republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan, Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev ran out of patience last week. Addressing the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, Gorbachev charged that efforts of the largely Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh to secede from Azerbaijan and join Armenia were "unacceptable" and endangered his program for revitalizing Soviet society...
Taking its cue from Gorbachev, the Presidium vetoed Nagorno-Karabakh's decision to leave Azerbaijan. Then, in the first action of its kind under Gorbachev, the legislative body stripped Soviet citizenship from Paruyr Ayrikyan, a leading Armenian dissident who has been jailed since March for fomenting unrest, and ordered him to be expelled from the country. His destination is not yet known...