Word: rebellion
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...York incident underscored the worsening factionalism and rebellion against discipline among the Panthers. For years there has been dissension between the leadership, based in Oakland and represented by Newton and Seale, and the less prominent New York group. The New Yorkers have resented what they consider autocratic rule from a distance. They have also remained relatively close to black nationalism, while Newton has broadened his view to what he calls "intercommunalism"-a willingness to cooperate with a variety of revolutionaries, including whites...
Despite the occasional note of optimism voiced by admissions directors to placate their alumni and salve their wounded spirits, the outlook is bleak for the prep schools. If the economic squeeze isn't damaging enough, the growing rebellion of once awed or indifferent thirteen-year-olds should be enough to doom a few schools and hurt, if not cripple, many others...
...biggest confrontation occurred in Szczecin, where workers in the giant Warski shipyards verged on rebellion. Angered by what they considered the new government's slow pace in answering their grievances, they staged slowdowns and drafted a list of 2,000 demands. Among them: pay increases, release of rioters still held in jail, and the removal of some Politburo members...
...billion in Food for Peace funds has been used for military purposes in the past 17 years. That sets Stone off against military assistance: "It encourages the effort to confront political and economic problems with force. It exacerbates economic distress by imposing the burden of large armies, and intensifies rebellion by repression." He scorns military-assistance teams trained specially to get involved in the life of the country where they are stationed: "This is a distant echo of the white man's burden, of our smug belief we can govern other people's lives better than they...
...struck youth when he wryly observes the machinelike aspects of civilization and objects to the meaninglessness of a life in which people become what they are "least afraid of becoming." Given such a context, Peter calculates that pot, with all its drawbacks, provides a means of honest and pleasurable rebellion and escape...