Word: unrestful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...announced price rises on virtually everything from cigarettes to kindergarten classes in the sharpest round of increases in six years. Though the jump in food prices was far smaller than the 110% boost that voters rejected in November, at 40% it was big enough to cause new ripples of unrest. In Gdansk, some 3,000 protesters chanted slogans and waved banners outside the local Communist Party headquarters...
Daniel Dreschler, one of the students in the program, said that the group encountered no direct evidence of unrest or upheaval, although local papers frequently carried stories about slayings of candidates and voters in nearby islands...
Avoiding the political unrest allowed the students to concentrate on theirmedical work, which Marton said was "extremelysuccessful...
...assault gave Israeli officials one more reason to reject the possibility of pursuing peace talks with the P.L.O.'s Yasser Arafat. But beyond the policy of beatings, Israeli officials offered no new ideas for dealing with Palestinian unrest. Shimon Peres, the Labor Party leader and Foreign Minister in the national unity government, suggested that the elections scheduled for November be moved up in hopes of producing a government better able to deal with the crisis. Predictably, Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, head of the right-wing Likud bloc, rejected the idea, saying it "would weaken our standing in the eyes...
...Sandinistas continue to wage peace in Central America, Washington braces for a crucial congressional vote on contra aid. -- Noriega stubbornly clings to power in Panama. -- Israel switches from bullets to beatings in attempting to control Palestinian unrest. -- Mozambique suffers under the double grip of famine and civil...