Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bizarre, rebellion-plagued history of the Congo since independence, Pierre Mulele authored one of the bloodier chapters. Almost five years ago, he launched a revolt against the "profiteers of independence"-the central government-and within months led his ill-equipped but relatively well-disciplined bands to control much of rich Kwilu province in the interior...
STEPHEN SHEAN Moline, Ill...
...caught both geographically and ideologically between the two blocs. It is Yugoslavia, whose President, Marshal Josip Broz Tito, not only was the first Eastern European ruler to achieve his independence from the Soviet overlordship but also served as an inspiration to Czechoslovak Party First Secretary Alexander Dubcek in his ill-starred search to find a measure of freedom within Communism. The recent Soviet press campaign against Tito ("lover of counter-revolution") and his country is almost as bitter as the one against West Germany. At a meeting last summer on his resort isle of Bnoni in the Adriatic, Tito...
...provoking sympathy for the students. Quite possibly the army's actions may have revived a campus rebellion that was beginning to peter out. A Chamber of Deputies commission had announced itself ready to meet the students, who were still pressing a list of demands, most notably 1) changing ill-defined antisubversion laws and 2) disbanding the city's riot cops. Now, such hope for accommodation lay blasted in the plaza...
...growing good of the world," George Eliot wrote in closing Middlemarch, her finest novel, "is partly dependent upon unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs." It was not only the motto for her books but, as Haight convincingly shows, an accurate summary of her own hidden life...