Word: unrestful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Colombia that last week they gunned down Carlos Luna, the security chief of Avianca Airlines, because he had the temerity to bust a 440-lb. shipment of coke hidden in the tires of a 747 jetliner bound for Miami. U.S. officials are concerned that drugs may provoke enough social unrest to lead to civil war and revolution. In Mexico official corruption tied to drug dealing threatens to destabilize America's southern neighbor...
...bloody confrontation that left 24 dead erupted a fortnight ago in Soweto. Last week, as the township girded for further violence, Pretoria issued the most stringent press restrictions yet, this time properly spelling them out in the Government Gazette. Reporters were prohibited from coming "within sight" of any unrest, security action or restricted gathering. Last week's funeral was thus off limits, forcing journalists to rely on word-of-mouth reports from Soweto...
...collecting rents and providing housing, electricity, water, sanitation and other services. When costs went up, the councils hiked the rents, and the townships rebelled. In September 1984, a rent strike in some of the townships to the south of Johannesburg marked the beginning of the current period of nationwide unrest...
...have difficulty defending the crackdown, a necessity for winning support in the U.S. Congress, which is considering the Reagan Administration's $4.02 billion aid package for Islamabad. Meanwhile, Benazir Bhutto's efforts to force the government's hand may spark more bloodshed, possibly creating the same type of social unrest that led to Zia's military coup...
Even though some 1,900 people, most of them black, have been killed since the current unrest began in September 1984, the lives of South Africa's 5 million whites have changed relatively little--at least on the surface. Most of them still live in big houses with spacious grounds, universally protected by solid walls, which, they like to explain to visitors, are for enclosing children and dogs. Even whites of fairly modest income have a life-style that would be out of the reach of well-to-do professionals in the U.S. or Western Europe. In today's depressed...