Word: unrestful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dean of Scheduling to make sure the quotas are not exceded. Lotteries are held each week to determine who can speak and who can't. But SASC & Co. still send blockaders to every speech (there are much fewer they need to keep track of now). To reduce campus unrest and cut expenditures, Spence lowers the limit to once a month, and then once a year, matching the number of campus-wide alcohol parties each House can have...
...since he took power in 1977, but his latest moves have caused them to back away. Conservatives worried that the party's authority was threatened by Deng's 1984 drive to extend free enterprise to China's cities and by public discussion of political reforms. Last year's student unrest only heightened their fears. As a result, says a Western diplomat in Peking, "Deng's coalition has been coming apart...
Organizers of the project said that by becoming the sister to a Salvadoran village, Cambridge will help the inhabitants there return to their homes, which have been terrorized during the years of unrest and fighting...
...city of Kafanchan criticized the Koran. Ensuing clashes between Muslim and Christian students led to a week of turmoil that left 13 dead, countless injured, 489 arrested and a trail of burned property, including twelve churches and two mosques in five cities. When peace was restored, officials blamed the unrest on "misguided elements" and denied that the trouble involved religious bigotry...
...student protests drove President Syngman Rhee from office after twelve years in power. Demonstrations frequently erupted throughout the 1960s and '70s. A student uprising claimed more than 100 lives in 1980 in the city of Kwangju. More recently, some 1,500 protesters were arrested during last October's unrest at Konkuk University. Many were sentenced to up to seven years in prison...