Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...groups, especially leftists who encourage militancy among the minorities. "We knew they were non-Islamic, but they proved to be nonhuman." The Ayatullah also fumed at his appointed government's failure to rule effectively. Said he: "I shall come to Tehran and straighten things out in a revolutionary way if they don't shape...
...seeking to crush the Kurds. Most of all, he hopes to demonstrate the futility of intransigence to all the minority groups. Besides that, he wants to deprive the leftist insurgents of the haven that the Kurds have traditionally provided them. Finally, he is using the Kurdish challenge as a way of raising the spirits and fighting ability of the demoralized armed forces...
...destabilization in the region. "Colonel [Muammar] Gaddafi would be happy if a conflict broke out between Algeria and Morocco," the King declared. "We would both come out of it so weakened as to ensure his leadership in North Africa." At the same time, he went out of his way to be conciliatory toward Algeria and invited a negotiated settlement...
...fertile southern provinces are now blessed with bumper crops. The other is that the area's farms and communes are desperately short of labor, because hundreds of thousands of Chinese youths have illegally migrated to big cities in search of better jobs and a more exciting way of life...
Sympathy for China's unemployed young people is not universal. The Sichuan (Szechuan) Communist Youth League recently complained that "some young people lack great and far-reaching revolutionary ideas, and some even pursue the decadent way of life of the bourgeoisie." Shu Xun, an English teacher at the Xiang Ming Middle School, worries about the materialism of many students, whose main concern is "getting an automobile or a color TV." Others have taken a revolutionary step further and even dared criticize the regime itself. "I think conditions must be far better in the Soviet Union than they are here...