Word: unrestful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...agree there should be "radical changes" in Chile's government. Such changes are unlikely until at least 1989, when Pinochet's 1980 constitution calls for the four-man military junta to choose a candidate for President, subject to public approval in a yes-or-no referendum. The current unrest, however, may tempt Pinochet to scrap even that small step toward democracy. "In the next weeks," predicts Orlando Saenz, a Chilean industrialist, "Pinochet could well declare that present conditions make 1989 impossible." If that happens, the tense standoff between the government and the opposition may turn ugly...
...latest allegations came at a time of mounting unrest between Israel and Syria. In recent weeks the Syrians have been building new tank and artillery emplacements in southern Lebanon. As Peres put it, Syrian forces have been steadily "creeping" toward Israel's northern border. Only last week Syrian- backed Lebanese guerrillas fired two Katyusha rockets across the border, wounding an Israeli and two of his children in Upper Galilee. Israel's costly 1982 war in Lebanon was supposed to have stopped such attacks...
...time of sharply escalating racial unrest, who is the most popular South African leader among the country's white minority? State President P.W. Botha, who is pushing for limited reforms? Archbishop-elect Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate whose cries for change have been tempered by condemnations of violence? Gavin Relly, the chairman of the giant Anglo- American Corp., who last year led a delegation of white businessmen to Lusaka, Zambia, for an unprecedented meeting with the exiled leadership of the African National Congress (A.N.C.)? According to a recent poll, that distinction | belongs to none of the above...
...additional $150 million in aid to Manila. "She's surprising us in some ways," said one Washington official. "She also seems clearly preferable to any of the alternatives." That much has been underlined by the troublesome presence in Hawaii of Marcos, whose payment of supporters to stir up unrest in Manila has irritated even the usually imperturbable Shultz. "He's causing trouble," declared the Secretary of State last week, "and some of it goes beyond just argument...
Even as he was being chosen by the recently elected National Assembly, Sadiq was reminded that he faces enormous problems. After a quarter-century of sporadic fighting and unrest between the Arab north and the black south, the civil war is on again. Last week the Ethiopian-backed rebels of the Sudanese People's Liberation Army captured two more southern towns. Apart from the war, the moderate Sadiq must find ways of balancing the influence of Libya, which helped him during his years in opposition, and the U.S., which last year gave Sudan more than $400 million in military...