Word: violent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...complain that he is a poor administrator. "Laws are passed and not carried out," said C.D.S. President Diogo Freitas do Amaral, citing the decline of public services, continued high unemployment and balance of payments deficits. The social peace that has characterized Soares' term has been shattered by several violent demonstrations and bombings. Earlier this month, 20,000 right-wing demonstrators-including wealthy businessmen, dirt farmers from the north and neo-Nazi youth-marched through Lisbon to show their discontent...
...there are to be any reforms in the near future, they will be "filtered through," one or two at a time, as a Vorster associate puts it. The job reservation laws, which restrict certain work categories to whites, may be scrapped. The Bantu education system, the subject of violent protest by black students in the past 18 months, will almost certainly be revised. Integration of sports-increasingly acceptable to whites, if largely irrelevant to black aspirations-may be expanded...
...Haven police yesterday arrested 20 Yale students who joined with striking university workers in what many students called the most violent incident since the eight-week strike began...
Before things get under way, let me tell you about my Thanksgiving vacation. I got home Wednesday, had dinner, watched television, and went to bed. From there it was downhill. I awoke at 4 a.m. with violent stomach pains which were to put me out of action for the next few days. Needless to say, I didn't eat much Thursday...
...case against Aquino is weak, to say the least. The body of the evidence, which was circumstantial at best, came from two former guerrillas who turned state's evidence and then met mysteriously violent deaths...