Word: rebellion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...justice that the students will probably have to settle for. The only other litigation still pending consists of some civil damage suits against state officials and National Guard officers brought by parents of the students who were killed. Kent State, the bitter climax to campus rebellion, is about to pass into history...
...processed for storage in the memory bank of a computer (one console of which will be located in the Pentagon.) Then operations will be developed to correlate and use them. To do what? To do things like estimate the number of riot police necessary to stop a ghetto rebellion in City X that might be triggered by event Y because of communications pattern K given Q number of political agitators of type Z; to plan a coup in country A where government B correctly assesses the needs of its people to be C and D and among whom the trend...
There was an ominous familiarity about the uprising in the maximum-security state prison at Rahway, N.J. Remember Attica, scrawled on a sheet fluttering from a cellblock window, was hardly necessary. However, 24 hours after Rahway inmates had seized four guards and the warden as hostages, the rebellion ended peacefully. At Attica, 43 inmates and hostages died during an assault on the prisoners' stronghold; after a negotiated settlement, the hostages at Rahway were released and prisoners returned quietly to their cells...
Throughout the fearful day, New Jersey officials and inmates alike gradually abandoned hard-line demands in favor of safety and compromise. Shortly after the rebellion started, New Jersey Governor William Cahill appeared, to direct negotiations from a nearby command post. The prisoners were not as well organized as the Attica inmates; they were also less militant and inflexible in their demands. Both sides, it seems, remembered Attica...
...Khartoum courtroom last August was memorable for more than its drama. It marked the first time that a white mercenary had ever been brought to trial in Africa. Last week the tribunal rendered its verdict: the German-born Steiner, 42, was guilty of aiding the 15-year-old rebellion of black southern Sudanese against the northern Arab government. Steiner was sentenced to death, but President Jaafar Numeiry immediately commuted the sentence to 20 years' imprisonment...