Word: unrestful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Peking marched through the streets waving banners vaguely demanding "freedom" and % "democracy." And day after day the central government in Peking reacted with total silence, blacking out all news of the protests. Then, last week, the government finally decided how it would handle the largest outbreak of youthful unrest in China in a decade. When Peking finally spoke, its tone was at once threatening and conciliatory...
Less than 48 hours later, all public demonstrations were banned in Peking, as they had been a few days earlier in Shanghai. With that, the engine of student unrest began to sputter, though at week's end thousands of students took to the streets of Nanjing to protest the government actions. The ongoing demonstrations presented the government with one of its toughest political tests in recent years. The question: Could the Deng regime keep its promise to tolerate the dissent and open debate that seemed to go hand in hand with its free-market economic policies? The answer: a resounding...
...attempt to overthrow the government." With that piece of hyperbole by an information official, South Africa last week imposed one of the most draconian censorship policies in the non-Communist world. Only six months after it had decreed a harsh emergency rule in an effort to quell rising racial unrest, the government of State President P.W. Botha now sought to shroud the country's apartheid-torn society in a veil of secrecy and intimidation. Though the move was aimed principally at curtailing the domestic and foreign press, its overall intent was to cut off South Africa, its people...
...sweeping new regulations. There, while a warm summer sun bathed the administrative capital, they were handed a 24-page document whose terms were to go into effect on Dec. 11. The new regulations prohibit journalists from being "on the scene, or at a place within sight of any unrest, restricted gathering or security action" without permission of security officials. They forbid the reporting of "subversive" comments by those advocating a wide range of antigovernment actions. They ban the photographing of dead people, property damage or any other "visible signs" of unrest. Violations of the tough new restrictions can be punishable...
...plight of the press in South Africa was already bad enough. Ever since June, journalists had been prohibited from visiting trouble spots. Newspapers had been prevented from publishing photographs of unrest or reporting "subversive" statements by anyone advocating strikes, boycotts or other disruptive activity. Despite such limitations, however, the foreign press still managed to print a good deal about events in South Africa, and domestic publications continued to run critical editorials and articles...