Word: rebellion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Coming home, late at night, they stumble on a dead man in whose wallet is a bewysboek with a permit to work in Port Elizabeth. This is Sizwe's chance--in drunken self-righteousness and rebellion, he at first refuses to steal the bewysboek and take on the dead man's identity, because for a black man in South Africa, his name is all that he has, the last proof of his manhood. But he finally relents, and Sizwe Banzi is dead...
...submits even more servilely to the daily humiliations in order not to jeopardize it. His mind is wholly filled with the expectation of domestic happiness, meeting his wife, his family. He never questions the authority that jailed him in the first place. There is no hint of rage or rebellion. The very introduction of the Antigone plot introduces a note of ambiguity, a possible justification of the South African regime...
...Communist Party Boss Alvaro Cunhal and a woolly-minded Marxist ideologue who favored the creation in Portugal of a socialist state along Eastern European lines. Last week in an apparent victory for moderate forces within the M.F.A., Gonçalves fell from power. In the face of virtually open rebellion by non-Communist officers in the army and air force, Gonçalves−who the previous week had lost his post as Premier−gave up his appointment as chief of the general staff of the armed forces. In addition, he and three radical colleagues were dropped from membership...
Things went wrong right from the start. When General Soils visited one of the capital's garrisons to get its support, a startled guard heard his request and then sent him off to jail−where he still remains. Gonzalez, meanwhile, distributed manifestoes proclaiming the rebellion before it had begun. As it happened, President Rodriguez was one of the recipients of a copy. He quickly escaped to a friendly garrison 120 miles south of the capital, leaving his wife and five children behind in the palace...
...American grain that the Russians ordered in July, it has helped to keep the emotionally charged issue of Soviet sales and rising food prices high up in the public consciousness. AFL-CIO spokesmen claim that their mail is running 20 to 1 in favor of the unions' rebellion...