Word: violent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After 19 years in office, Mayor Richard Daley seems as permanent a part of the city of Chicago as Lake Michigan. His powerful Democratic machine has survived race riots, violent political demonstrations and endless scandals. But last week, with the boss recovering from a mild stroke, many Chicagoans were seriously thinking the unthinkable: that perhaps the end of the Daley era was in sight...
...weary sense of fatalism within governments on both sides of the border. Ireland's Prime Minister Liam Cosgrave said the outrage would "strengthen the resolve of those north and south working for peace." Privately, ministers of his government were deeply troubled by the prospect of unreasoned, violent passions invading the south. At week's end they were still struggling to understand who had done...
...Mitterrand, running with Communist backing, accused Finance Minister Valery Giscard d'Estaing of being the tool of "these princes, these dukes, these millionaires [who] have not had a new-idea in 15 years." The patrician Giscard in turn scourged his left-wing opponent for running "a violent and nasty campaign" and for trying to revive "the quarrels of the past...
China in recent months has been undergoing a mini-Cultural Revolution. While less violent and public than the convulsion of radicalism that ravaged the country between 1966 and 1969, the current drift leftward could affect the composition and course of the leadership. One big mystery has been the position of Premier Chou Enlai. Last week China watchers had new evidence that Chou may be under increasing attack from ideological hard-liners for his pragmatic policies, especially China's developing rapprochement with the capitalist world...
...embargo touched off a series of far-reaching social effects. Americans, suddenly deprived of gasoline, were also short of the "security blanket" provided by the auto and all the "freedom, status and glamour" that it represents. During the embargo, Keller said, police records show that there were more "violent family encounters as people spent more time involuntarily at home...