Word: unrestful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unrest and rebellion? Democrats in Congress like Speaker Jim Wright and Sen. John Kerry who lay all the blame on the White House shouldn't throw War-Powers-Act stones in glass rotundas. They are equally--if not more--to blame as the Reagan Administration for our failure to pursue a coherent foreign policy in an area which was once so secure as to be called "America's backyard". Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Panama show the indecision and weakness that can erupt when the executive and legislative branches refuse to cooperate on foreign relations...
...must be based on "internationalist" principles. Most Soviet analysts took that remark as a coded warning to Armenians to set aside their nationalist aspirations, specifically, the goal of annexing the Nagorno-Karabakh district of Azerbaijan, which is populated mainly by Armenians and was the scene of most of the unrest. Whether that stipulation is agreeable to Armenia is questionable, but no further disturbances were reported in the region...
Soviet problems with ethnic unrest will doubtless be very much on Gorbachev's mind this week, when he is scheduled to make a five-day visit to Yugoslavia, a nation with some of Eastern Europe's bitterest tribal rivalries. Yet even as the Soviet leader was seeking to keep the lid on at home, outbreaks of turbulence erupted in three of the Soviet-dominated states of Eastern Europe. In Poland, Czechoslovakia and East Germany, Communist authorities last week moved to stamp out separate shows of popular defiance. Though these outbreaks involved political rather than ethnic grievances, both forms of unrest...
Shamir hopes that a rightward trend in Israeli politics, fueled by the continuing Palestinian unrest, will enable Likud to oust Labor from Israel's power-sharing coalition government in this year's elections, scheduled for November. But a gnawing problem for Likud as well as Labor is that the nation continues to be deeply divided over what to do about the occupied territories. At week's end a poll of some 500 Israelis published in the Tel Aviv daily Hadashot showed that while 46% favored the land-for-peace proposal and 37% opposed it, fully 17% were undecided...
Rooted in ancient hatreds, the unrest is fueled by the Soviet leader' s headlong rush to modernize his country. An exclusive look at the demonstrations. -- Shultz offers the Reagan Administration' s first Middle East peace plan since 1982. -- A backlash helps white extremists win a key by- election in South Africa. -- Manila' s mood is clouded two years after the People Power revolution...