Word: unrestful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Because of the current policy's vagueness, "Administration policies for handling campus unrest are in a shambles," said senior Thomas W. Casparian, a commission member who was arrested in a 1985 divestment protest. "They've really acted in an offensively defensive manner," he said...
...economic and political reforms -- and with good reason. They realize that copying the Soviet policies would effectively repudiate their own. The men who control the six Warsaw Pact countries remember the last time such wrenching change took place in the Kremlin. In 1956, after Nikita Khrushchev denounced Stalin, unrest swept Eastern Europe. Workers rioted in Poland, and a Hungarian rebellion had to be put down by Soviet troops. Notes one Polish journalist: "Everyone just holds his breath and waits for what will happen next...
...size of the disturbances hardly measured up to recent student unrest in Paris, Seoul, Madrid or Shanghai. Nonetheless, they were deeply troubling to a Kremlin regime that rules over a vast patchwork of nearly 100 nationalities, ranging from the European-minded Lithuanians to the Asian-oriented Kazakhs, who are of predominantly Muslim heritage. The Soviet Union is held together by a ramshackle, Russian-dominated central bureaucracy that is ever fearful that nationalist outbreaks could spread. Moscow was therefore quick to punish not only those who participated in the riots but the officials who failed to prevent them...
...surge of unrest among Mexican students may have tapped a swelling current of discontent throughout the population. The main target: the De la Madrid government, synonymous in the minds of most Mexicans with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.), which has ruled Mexico without interruption for 58 years. Party officials were said to be stunned by the size and force of the student movement. Says Political Analyst Adolfo Aguilar Zinser: "There's no way of knowing what will set the people off. The government can squeeze salaries, raise prices, cut services, cheat in elections, and nothing happens. Suddenly they...
...current wave of unrest in Western Europe began last November, when students closed more than 50 French universities in an attempt to defeat a government-sponsored bill that would have tightened admissions requirements and raised tuition fees. Students criticized the changes as "elitist." In December they gained a dramatic victory when Premier Jacques Chirac withdrew the proposal. Part of their motivation was to continue the elitism they deplored: while total French unemployment is about 11%, only 3% of university graduates are jobless...