Word: rebellion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Reggie's rebellion spread and cut off virtually the entire southern fifth of the country, Premier Emilio Colombo ordered troops to cope with a civil disturbance for the first time since 1946. A force of 5,000 uniformed soldiers was moved into the area. For the second time in a tumultuous week, a Western government was compelled to call out its armed forces to face a gathering rebellion...
When the nod went instead to Catanzaro, a much smaller city (pop. 82,000) 75 miles away, Reggio exploded. There were five days of street violence in July in which one civilian was killed and several policemen were injured. A bitter mood of rebellion grew against "the Bourbons" in Rome. Shopkeepers shuttered their stores and bankers locked their vaults. Schools were closed...
...Chicago. "Terrific, if you want to look like a walking gunny sack," says Los Angeles Advertising Executive Adrienne Hall. The Women's Liberation movement presented a rationale for the midi's downfall. "I see resistance to the midi as part and parcel of the whole rebellion thing," says C.C.N.Y. Psychology Professor Morton Bard. "The fashion industry may be ruled by fat cats pulling strings, but now women are saying, 'We're going to resist...
writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require...
...recognition of one black by another. But a third of the white enlisted men and more than 40 per cent of the white officers in my survey condemn its use. "They shouldn't make that sign," complained Staff Sg. Bobby Edwards of Woodsboro, Texas. "That is a show of rebellion and strength." Specialist Lane Bragg of Los Angeles, a squad leader in a mortar platoon in the 82nd Airborne, recalled a white captain chastising him for making the sign to a black sergeant. "What's this clenched fist sign mean?" the Captain yelled. "That sergeant is a good...