Word: wave
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...officials cracked down on the two major strikes, other work stoppages were reported in Poland. The strikes and stoppages represent the worst wave of labor unrest to hit Poland since the military crackdown...
Some Israelis echoed Weizmann's concerns. They feared that the attack might backfire, unleashing a vengeful and more virulent wave of violence in the territories, strengthening extremist forces within the P.L.O. and weakening the already thin prospects for a U.S.-sponsored regional peace plan. "Abu after Abu can be liquidated," warned Knesset Member Yossi Sarid. "But this will not liquidate the Palestinian problem...
...threat to their extra privileges -- special housing, schools and food stores. Automatic bonuses for workers were threatened, which prompted protest strikes. Nationalist outbursts in the Baltic states, protest demonstrations by Crimean Tatars in Moscow and riots in Azerbaijan appeared to encourage those who blamed glasnost for the sudden wave of unrest...
...writer of science fiction but rather an explorer of "inner space." Surface reality interests him chiefly as a starting point for the mind: "I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world." That power needs to be pitted against Shepperton and its calm environs: "The wave of the future breaks here in the suburbs. This and all places like it are becoming a geography of concrete and credit cards. My fear is that the exercise of the imagination, an intensely private act, may die out. People may live in an eventless world, where nothing new will ever...
...slaying of al-Wazir last Saturday shocked the Palestinian community and prompted a fresh wave of violence in the already besieged occupied territories. In Gaza, where al-Wazir had lived as a teenager, there were protests and memorial services for the slain official of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Seven Palestinians were killed and scores wounded in clashes with Israeli soldiers. In the West Bank the scene was somewhat less violent but no less angry. Palestinians flew black flags and crowded the mosques to read commemorative phrases from the Koran. Still, tensions resulted in five deaths, making last Saturday's total...