Word: rebellion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cracking the whip over the heads of the Cantonese was particularly difficult. They lived 1500 miles south of Peking over a mountain range. Like American southerners, they had an old tradition of rebellion. They spoke southern Chinese dialects unintelligible to the men ruling in Peking...
...Bulldogs' unexpected slump, along with Penn's continued rebellion, helped to jumble already confused league standings even further last week, and although Cornell seems to have wrapped up the Ivy crown without dispute, the runnerup position is open to any one of four squads...
...done Strangelove, I wouldn't have been in Catch-22. I think the hero, Yossarian, is the biggest cop-out there ever was. What the hell good does it do to take your clothes off, climb a tree and refuse to come down? What kind of rebellion is that...
...reserves in the Niger Delta. The Biafrans were also supported by South Africa, Rhodesia and Portugal, all obviously interested in preventing a united Nigeria from realizing its potential as the most powerful state in all of Black Africa. Black-ruled African nations, worried about the effect of the rebellion on their own disparate tribes (see box following page), were overwhelmingly pro-Nigeria. Officially, the U.S. took no sides, but it irritated the Nigerian government by undertaking an airlift of public and private food supplies to keep Biafrans alive...
...become something of a cliche to note that Biafra's rebellion confronted Nigeria with the same issue that the U.S. faced when the South seceded more than a century ago. The great difference is that the American Civil War had few immediate repercussions outside the U.S.; Nigeria's conflict is certain to strike resonant chords across the continent of Africa for decades to come...