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...year decided to treat his cadets to a sort of after-hours seminar in current events. His subject was the slow pace of government reform under Premier Ismet Inonu. To speed things up, Aydemir, 43, a tough ex-artillery officer, suggested that the lads support him in an armed rebellion against the shaky Inonu regime. But everyone flunked the final exam in Insurrection I-an abortive coup led by Aydemir in February 1962 that fizzled out in six hours. Teacher lost his job and his uniform, and the cadets were disciplined. Undaunted, former Colonel Aydemir, some 200 other ex-army...
Since the already industrialized nations are getting the choicest assignments, they are naturally offering the least resistance, but Russia is still forced to field complaints and rebellion against COMECON policy from almost every quarter. Czechoslovakia and East Germany are reluctant to set up a common investment fund to help develop industry in member nations because they fear most of the capital will come from them. Poland, unable to get the goods it wants from COMECON neighbors, has signed treaties that will raise trade with the West by as much as 40% while it increases its COMECON purchases only 18%. Such...
...recent months 62-year-old King Saud of Saudi Arabia has suffered a succession of intestinal, stomach, chest, circulatory and heart ailments. Often they seem to be aggravated by the swirling political events in his desert capital of Riyadh. After the Yemen rebellion last fall threatened the stability of his throne, Saud's health was so upset that he turned the government over to his able brother, Prince Feisal, and flew to Switzerland for treatment...
...Rebellion. Pill hoarders are not necessarily mental patients or even borderline cases. "The real point," says Psychiatrist Goldman, "is not the hoarding but the refusal to take the pills. Some patients stop taking medicine as soon as they feel better. Others refuse it as an act of rebellion against the authority of doctors, nurses or family. Still others are afraid of being tagged as sickly or weaklings. And on the borderline are the people who are afraid of being poisoned...
...April 16 to May 9, 1917, French troops flung themselves against the Germans' barbed wire, entrenched machine guns and presighted artillery until 130,000 French casualties had piled up. Morale collapsed. A front-line battalion, scheduled for replacement, was ordered instead to attack, and mutinied. Word of the rebellion traveled along the trenches. Suddenly the masses of exhausted French soldiers realized that they had power. There were too many of them to shoot-even if loyal troops could have been found to fire on them...