Word: unrestful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fearing violence from student protestors during a period of unprecedented unrest over the Vietnam War, the Faculty effectively banned the U.S. military's Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) from Harvard's campus. This year, however, the efforts of students who participate in the program at MIT to gain University recognition for a "Friends of the ROTC" club has sparked renewed debate over the training program's role at Harvard. The ROTC's club appeal, and the resurgent student interest in military training that it represents, makes now a good time for the Faculty to address the real issue behind...
...said to have told Mantarov that the KGB concluded in 1979 that Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Jimmy Carter's Polish-born National Security Adviser, had somehow engineered the election of Pope John Paul II the previous year. Brzezinski's supposed purpose: to use the Pope to inspire further unrest in Poland and eventually to wrench the country out of the Soviet orbit. Mantarov claims that he was told that as the troubles in Poland mounted, and as the Pontiff came to be identified with the budding Solidarity movement, Soviet authorities gave the command to "eliminate" the Pope. They allegedly...
...where it was in 1978. Faced with a drop in oil revenues this year of at least $4 billion, Venezuela has shelved plans for construction of a new railroad, a steel mill and several highways. With an election coming in December, the government is already getting edgy about political unrest. Three journalists were jailed two weeks ago for criticizing the President...
...distant future, a younger generation that did not live through the horrors of the war will take over. Despite the constraints of the Soviet system, these leaders might well be interested in improving the lot of their people--if only out of necessity. Growing labor unrest and dissidence within the Soviet Union have till now been successfully held in check, but history suggests the country will not stagnate forever. As Goldman puts...
...year, more than 200 dissidents have been jailed. Last week 30 top opposition leaders were arrested at the home of Kamal Hossain, a former Foreign Minister and the author of the country's constitution. All were charged with holding an unlawful political meeting and encouraging student unrest...