Word: rebellion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...constitution," he replied. "Ratification of the new constitution offers us the chance to shift to normalcy when and if the time comes. If we don't ratify this constitution, the opportunity to shift to normalcy may be delayed for some time. But let's say a rebellion threatens our security. Let's say it happens next October or November. In that case I would have to call for a stricter form of martial law. Please take note, I said if this rebellion occurs. It is my hope that I can lift martial...
...Many cast their ballots at the end of their shifts, still covered in coal dust. Despite the United Mine Workers' violent tradition, there was no disorder. And despite the membership's habit of following authoritarian leaders, the count last week showed that the men were bent on rebellion. By a vote of 70,373 to 56,334, they ousted W.A. ("Tony") Boyle, 70, their autocratic union president for nine years, in favor of Arnold Miller, 50, the courtly, soft-spoken leader of the union's insurgent reform wing, a man just two years out of the mines...
...single, perfect gesture that cannot only shape a scene but punctuate it. Addled after submitting to a quick series of police mug shots, Di Noi is asked for his "other profile" and hastily turns the back of his head to the camera. Protesting his innocence during the cell-block rebellion he is brained by a zealous guard, and shrugs in bewilderment even as he falls to the ground. After Di Noi is finally acquitted and released, still fearful and partly insane, he is waiting with his family at the border to try to begin the vacation again. He plunges...
Another esteemed ruin, as far as Vidal is concerned, is the 18th century radicalism of the Declaration of Independence. In writing of contemporary American piety, hypocrisy or corruption, he evokes the ghost of Daniel Shays, a veteran of the American Revolution who led a futile rebellion against the propertied founding fathers when they sought to replace the confederation of states with a central government empowered to collect taxes. Shays, says Vidal with obvious approval, sounding a little like a Dixiecrat, "did not want London to be replaced by New York." Still the Property Party, as Vidal calls those who rule...
...pieces of marble off Rome's Victor Emmanuel monument; three pedestrians were hurt. Police in the two cities promptly went into action. Three days later in Milan, they arrested Pietro Valpreda, 37, a sometime ballet dancer and member of an anarchist group called "March 22" (after the 1968 rebellion of French students at Nanterre University); seven people affiliated with the organization were also picked up in Rome. Valpreda and two other March 22 members were subsequently charged with strage (massacre) in the Milan bombing, a crime that carries a life sentence...