Word: unrestful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past the Deng government has been able to suppress student unrest with a minimum of violence by using the worst threat at its disposal: assignment upon graduation to an uninteresting job in a remote location. But as the last month's events have suggested, some seem willing to risk even a promising future. "Somebody has to do it," says a recent Peking University graduate. "The fate of the country is at stake." The demonstrations, he added, "will eventually be viewed as a boon to history because they are keeping our leaders on their toes, forcing them to speed...
...been banned, held in solitary confinement for months at a time, restricted and sent into domestic exile. During that time she has developed into a combative leader in her own right. Her public appearances regularly set off huge dancing demonstrations, and at the funerals of blacks killed in racial unrest, she is often carried on the shoulders of singing youths. Winnie claims she only "deputizes" for her husband, and says, "The Afrikaner has made me what I am. The Afrikaner has made each and every black politician in this land...
...their history books last week for a bit of inspiration -- and even a few lessons. Throughout this century, massive student rallies have often augured or advanced social and political change in China, ushering in new eras or helping set the country's political agenda. Indeed, the recent outpouring of unrest shares familiar themes with the outcries of earlier student generations: a fervent call for renewed national purpose and a noisy demand for domestic reform...
...suppressed by authorities, who pronounced it "counterrevolutionary." The incident marked the beginning of the end for Mao's Gang of Four and served as a harbinger of Deng's long-awaited ascent to power -- and of the social and economic liberalizations that spawned the latest round of unrest...
...kidnaped in Lebanon. Many leaders looked to another kind of pressure -- that of economic sanctions -- to push the white-dominated government in South Africa toward reform. But neither trade embargoes nor the pullout of Western firms seemed likely to douse the flames of racial violence. Indeed, last week the unrest continued, with sporadic clashes with government forces, protests against a state of emergency and "black Christmas" boycotts...