Word: rebellion
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...question everything. Our youth entitles us to be idealistic and perhaps rebellious; the state of the world that we are about to inherit entitles us to be a little cynical. But I fear that the hardest lesson some of us will have to learn is that neither idealism, rebellion, nor cynicism can successfully cope with the world-only realism. The real tragedy of those students would be a continuation of their sophomoric behavior after they leave their ivied limbo...
...Sudan could use a new Messiah. Dictator Ibrahim Abboud, the army general who grabbed power in 1958, was overthrown last fall, and Interim Prime Minister Serr el Khatim el Khalifa has been hard put to hold the country together. The Negro south, long restive, went into open rebellion against Arab rule, and its demands for independence forced Khalifa to go ahead with the balloting only in the northern two-thirds of the nation. A leftist minority within his own Cabinet tried to sabotage the elections altogether and seize power for itself. Under heavy leftist pressure, Khalifa turned the nation into...
...have been skirmishing intermittently for a 500-mile strip of land which was once considered Moroccan, but was handed over to Algeria by the French when they controlled the area. In addition, militant Socialist Ben Bella regards Hassan as a feudal tyrant and has been training guerrillas and encouraging rebellion against...
...press supported Johnson's intervention. Said the Chattanooga Times: "President Johnson took a bold step, one fraught with difficulties and even dangers, but he had the same solid reason of which Mr. Kennedy spoke -the security of our nation." Agreed the Chicago Daily News: "The Dominican rebellion forced President Johnson to decide whether the Western Hemisphere was threatened by another Cuba. He decided it was. Let those who did not have his information or responsibility decide that he was wrong; that is the luxury of the spectator...
Triumph--triumph of the individual, triumph of ingenuity, triumph for the Dark Suit Rebellion. On the other hand, however, from the point of view of the administration, rescued was the letter of the law. But how might the law be manipulated when a gangling young tutor, participating in the regatta of 1858 knotted a blood-red handkerchief about his head? That color became the color of Harvard College, and that athlete Harvard's most distinguished president...