Word: antiroyalist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...every Sorbonne student knows, the road to raising hell in Paris is paved with good ammunition. The cobblestones of Paris, first laid in 1185, cracked against police helmets in the antiroyalist riots of 1830. They helped arm the socialist revolutionaries of 1848. They provided the enduring arsenal of the Paris Commune in the great battles across the barricades in 1871. With such textbook examples of tactics, it was hardly surprising that the student rioters of 1968 found the paving stones of the Left Bank a prime weapon in their nightly insurrections against the Gaullist regime...
Resentment of Civilians. Trouble has been brewing for months between Papadopoulos and the council's dozen or so hardliners, whose most influential member is Colonel loannis Ladas, the chief of Greece's internal security system. The hard-liners are ardently antiCommunist, antiRoyalist and in favor of a state of "continued revolution" to purge Greece of its "imperfections." In the first months after the coup, Papadopoulos placed a number of the hard-liners in various important ministries. Though they held a second-rank title of secretary-general, they actually told the ministers what to do. But as Papadopoulos consolidated...
...sudden proliferation of terrorist organizations that seem as ready to fire on rivals as on the hated Jews. There are now no fewer than eleven separate Arab terrorist organizations, including the 550-man Asifa (Storm Troopers) operating out of Syria, the 8,000-man Palestine Liberation Organization, and antiroyalist groups in Saudi Arabia and Muscat...
Louis Philippe as Sargantua. The lithograph was a comparatively new art in those days, but it quickly became Daumier's bread and butter. He began turning out political cartoons for an ardently antiroyalist magazine called La Caricature. One cartoon portrayed King Louis Philippe as Gargantua gobbling up every last sou in France. For such indiscretions Daumier spent six months in prison...