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...have been maligned," declared the Pakistani armed forces intelligence chief, Major General Mohammad Akbar Khan. The general's complaint, delivered to half a dozen foreign journalists in Karachi, concerned the widespread reports of army brutality in the effort to crush the seven-week-old Bengali rebellion in East Pakistan. Incensed by what it describes as "concocted items put out by foreign press and radio," the government staged a series of briefings and a fast four-day helicopter tour of the East to get the "correct" story across...
...Republic from 1959 to 1966; in Dublin. The protégé of Eamon de Valera, Lemass graduated to Parliament from the crucible of the Black and Tan conflict. At 16 he holed up with Irish Republican Army soldiers in Dublin's General Post Office during the Easter Rebellion of 1916. Fifteen rebels were shot and thousands deported after British shells ended the uprising, but Lemass was released. According to Dublin legend, "the cops gave him a kick in the arse and told him to go home to his Mom." He went underground instead. When De Valera...
...Berlin during the last days of the war as part of a Soviet plan to impose Communism on defeated Germany. Ulbricht succeeded only in that area where Soviet troops could enforce his orders. Even then, the East Germans in 1953 staged the East bloc's first abortive rebellion. In 1956, as the Soviet bloc was swept by the wave of destalinization, Ulbricht stubbornly refused to relax even slightly his rigid, autocratic rule. His decision proved correct, from a Communist viewpoint, when Hungary and Poland exploded in revolts. In 1961, after more than 3,600,000 East Germans had fled...
...those darling eight-year-old stars of Hansel and Gretel, tragic dears orphaned by an auto crash, who became the exemplary children of the Marezie Oats oatmeal commercials. To the kids who had to eat the gruel, Pookie and Paul were the double thrust of the '60s youth rebellion. Paul is revered for exposing himself at a Dallas rockfest, Pookie for burning her bra at a Miss America pageant and announcing that "some of my best lovers are high public officials...
...report added that many disorders were led and instigated by non-students and students from other schools- "traveling organizers and fomenters of disruption and rebellion." It noted that "the aims and tactics of local groups often are patterned upon and are basically identical with those of nationally known militant and revolutionary organizations...