Word: rebellion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with his children. The country he had left behind was in chaos: teetering on the edge of bankruptcy, unable to secure loans from international banking organizations, bitterly estranged from its onetime supporters in Washington. Despite the ruthlessness with which Somoza's Guardsmen had suppressed last year's rebellion, in which at least 2,000 people were killed, he has been unable to contain the guerrillas. In the past few weeks, rebels have wiped out a small government garrison in El Jicaro and shot down an armed C-47. In response, the dictator beefed up the National Guard from...
...theory favored by Sinologists was that Deng Xiaoping had concluded that his people had let off enough steam, and that further permissiveness by party leaders was an invitation to anarchy. In fact, China's press for the past few weeks has been filled with strange stories about youthful rebellion. In Shanghai, thousands of unemployed youths who had illegally returned from enforced stints in the countryside rioted near a city employment office in protest against the lack of jobs. According to some wall posters, unemployment had forced girls into prostitution and turned men to become beggars and thieves. The Hunan...
Afghanistan. Since September the pro-Soviet regime of President Noor Mohammed Taraki has been caught up in a bitter civil war; Moscow has charged?and Washington has angrily denied?that the U.S. instigated the rebellion. Some of the insurgents are inspired by tribal animosities, others by political opposition to the government's leftist ways. According to one U.S. expert in the area, "Islam has proved to be the major unifying theme for the rebels." Many of them have moved to armed camps in Pakistan. Taraki has tried to highlight his own credentials as a good Muslim; recently the government publicized...
...worked out a tentative agreement with the Kurds that would grant them some degree of local autonomy. How long the accord would last was uncertain. A proud mountain people whose kinsmen fan out across the border into Iraq, Turkey, Syria and the Soviet Union, the Kurds have been in rebellion against their overlords in Tehran for generations. During the early 1970s, the Shah aided the Kurds, who were fighting a guerrilla war to gain autonomy for their sector of northern Iraq. The U.S. tacitly backed the rebellion, encouraging the Shah to supply the Kurds with arms and matériel...
...main force behind this whisky rebellion is Keizo Saji, 59, the professorial chairman of Suntory Ltd. He and his family own Suntory still, pot and barrel. Last year the company's after-tax profits are estimated to have reached $57 million on sales of $2.8 billion. With volume last year of 26 million cases of Scotch-type whisky, Suntory not only commands 64% of Japan's whisky market but also claims to be the world's leading private distiller...