Word: unrestful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...others have had their requests for sanctuary turned down by the U.S. and Dutch governments. Britain last week asked them to leave the consulate, but insists that they may remain if they wish. Meanwhile, South Africa put the official death toll at 80 in the past two months of unrest in black townships. The government also announced that regular army units will continue to play "a greater supporting role" in troubled areas...
...Building in New York City, nine of TIME'S editors, correspondents and writers assembled for breakfast and a conversation with Mexico's Foreign Minister, Bernardo Sepulveda Amor. For more than an hour, Sepulveda answered questions about his country's relations with the U.S., and about the unrest in Central America. By the time the last coffees were finished, the TIME hosts had received yet another reminder that, as Chief of Correspondents Richard Duncan says, "Leaders and their informal conversations are usually much more interesting than their official statements...
Such sentiments are ironic among the young, who so often in the past have been inclined to rebel against authority figures. As Governor of California during the Viet Nam era, Reagan stirred youthful anger as a critic of campus unrest. Says one longtime aide: "I can remember when he went to college campuses, it would cause a riot." But Viet Nam and most of the other national traumas of the 1960s and early '70s have little resonance for young voters today, who are caught up in a surge of patriotic feeling. "They have not had disillusioning events in their...
...demanded stringent austerity measures by Argentina in return for its help, chiefly a reduction in public spending. But President Raul Alfonsin, installed in December after eight years of military rule, feared that too much austerity would cause civil unrest, possibly toppling his fragile democratic regime. The government drafted a letter of intent in June in which it said it would try to tighten its belt, but that was not enough for the IMF, which wanted more concrete austerity plans. It rejected Argentina's as inconsistent and unworkable...
...moment, the combination of soft talk and more moderate policies seems to be playing well. "I don't think we will be hurt by foreign policy," concludes a top adviser. "I just don't feel a lot of unrest out there...