Word: rebellion
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...intensifying conflict between the Philippine government and Moslem insurgents in the southern Philippines is notably different in at least one respect: no foreign power is yet directly involved on either side. Though the U.S. traditionally supplies arms to the Philippines, it has not increased its aid because of the rebellion. As for the insurgents, there is some evidence that their weapons are smuggled in by speedboats from the Malaysian state of Sabah (see map page 37), and that faraway Libya stands ready to finance fellow Moslems. But there has been no overt intervention, so far, on their behalf...
...Zeffirelli's work looks like a Sun day-school coloring book: everything is glowingly photogenic, including poverty, and leprosy. His St. Francis (Graham Faulkner) is a dewy, light-stepping youth who recruits the young men of Assisi the way a rock singer might round up a band. Their rebellion against the opulent hypocrisy they see in the Roman Catholic Church is to run about in rags, looking radiant. In one scene they all get together in a church and sing a liturgical composition especially provided for the occasion by Donovan...
What those leading Republicans were talking about last week was the rapidly expanding Watergate scandal and the Nixon Administration's efforts to keep some of its highest past or present officials from telling the Senate and the public what they know about it. The open rebellion by a wide range of Republicans against the Administration's secretive handling of the affair destroyed claims that the concern about Watergate was limited to partisan Democrats or sensation-seeking newsmen. The President clearly faces a credibility crisis within his own party...
...comes Historian Robert Sobel to change the familiar story and report Burgoyne's "splendid victory" at Saratoga, the subsequent crushing of the American rebellion, the execution of Radicals Jefferson, Sam Adams, John Adams, Patrick Henry and Tom Paine, and the sentencing and life imprisonment of the bumbler Washington. Sobel, professor of history at New College, Hempstead, N.Y., goes on to describe the formation under the Crown's benevolent authority of the Confederation of North America with Burgoyne as first viceroy. Hamilton, Madison, Nathanael Green and the other irreconcilable dissidents lead thousands of former rebels on what...
...much beady-eyed detail that a reader can argue as well about the C.N.A.'s 1966 election (Carter Monaghan, of the People's Coalition, beats his liberal opponent easily) as about the French Revolution. As for the latter, it never happened because the crushing of the American rebellion left revolutionary spirit in France too feeble to ignite the country, and the Bourbons misruled for another century...