Word: unrestful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...subsequent military government handed the government back to civilians. Paz Estenssoro, 78, took office last August and imposed austerity measures on an economy paralyzed by a 24,000% inflation rate, widespread labor unrest and a foreign debt of $4.8 billion. Says Paz Estenssoro: "We are attempting to rescue the country from ruin." The job has been complicated by the worldwide collapse in the prices of tin and natural gas, two key sources of export earnings...
...illegal May Day demonstration in Santiago, arresting 500 and injuring a dozen with rubber bullets. Security forces conducted sweeps in slum areas of the city, arresting a total of 11,000 men, who were hauled off to soccer fields and marked for police reference with indelible ink. If the unrest continues, Pinochet is likely to resort to a still tougher response: a state of siege of the kind that finally quelled similar unrest...
...said the amnesty, to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the establishment of the Republic of South Africa, will not apply to people imprisoned for offenses related to racial unrest, robbery, rape or assault...
...mass exodus of hundreds of thousands of laid-off migrant workers --mainly Egyptians, Palestinians and Pakistanis--from the Persian Gulf could overtax their native lands and stir political unrest. While singling out no particular country, Secretary of State Shultz cautioned last week, "History teaches that nations in deep economic distress are more vulnerable to political instability, to the simplistic appeals of demagogues who preach siren songs of war and confrontation as a diversion from home...
...Korean leader in history to make state visits to Britain, France and West Germany. The trip will almost certainly buoy the country's trade prospects, as well as Chun's reputation for foreign policy initiatives. But it will probably do little to ease his most urgent problem, the growing unrest at home...