Word: rebellion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...comfortable had closed ranks against the claims and the calls to conscience put forward by the less fortunate, or were at least arguing that their approach would ultimately most benefit all. And the comfortable seemed to be in the majority in the fall of 1972. They are in rebellion against the mass consciousness raising attempted by the protesters of the '60s, and weary too of the depredations of youth culture and the S.D.S., the noise of rock carmagnole and the further anarchisms of the "do it" ethic of Rubin and Hoffman. In the adolescence of 19th century Romanticism, the French...
...plane was found the next morning, tires flat, fuel tank empty; the pilot and his troops had disappeared into the bush, unharmed but also unsuccessful. The rebels had also counted on large numbers of soldiers from Uganda's well-armed 12,000-man army joining in the rebellion. They were wrong...
Another account of Attica has been written by Richard Clark, an inmate leader during the rebellion. It provides explicit reportage of what happened inside convict-held territory and describes the convicts' executions of three fellow prisoners. Whether the manuscript will ever be published is problematical. Random House dropped the book after receiving threats of libel suits from prisoners' lawyers as well as warnings that the book would almost certainly be used in any state prosecution of rioters...
...Portuguese responded to the uprising with bombs and machine guns. They bombed and strafed much of the countryside, including areas unaffected by the rebellion. In the words of one Baptist missionary. "The savagery of the Portuguese reaction kicked and scattered the fire until the whole of the North was ablaze...
Since that time the rebellion has simmered in the North. The Portuguese keep it laidden from public viewas much as possible; the roads through the affected areas can only be traveled on in a military convoy...