Word: rebellion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Peasant resistance to foreign or domestic efforts to control their lives is not new in Vietnam. Modern Vietnamese history was inaugurated by the Tay-son rebellion, a convulsive peasant upheaval which began in central Vietnam in 1771. Peasant armies under rebel generals toppled the ruling dynasties and beat back a Chinese invasion force. And although one of the dynasties--the Nguyen--regained control 30 years later, sporadic peasant rebellions on a smaller scale kept the mandarins from ignoring the peasants...
...participant in the 1971 rebellion at New York's Attica State Prison said last night that the prisoners who were indicted after the revolt would not be defeated in the courtroom...
...allowed at least a semblance of parliamentary democracy. But the Brazilian "gorillas" were different. They dissolved all political organizations, banned labor unions, suspended civil liberties, filled the jails, and sat back comfortably, smugly confident that skyrocketing U.S. aid and investment would foster economic development and undercut the sources of rebellion. The generals planned to stay in power for a long time, and the Communist Party's plan to wait them out made less and less sense as the decade wore...
...first time since the April 21, 1967 military coup that brought George Papadopoulos and his army colleagues to power, tanks and armored vehicles rumbled through the streets of Athens last week. They were there to battle rioting students who, in an abortive one-day rebellion, had precipitated the most serious civil disturbance in Greece in years...
Harvard's Ad Hoc Committee for Support of the People's Struggle in Greece will hold a protest in support of the rebellion in front of the Greek consulate in Boston today...