Word: rebellion
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...Algeria," he said, "how can you fail to see that in rising up against the state and against the nation, you are surely heading toward ruin and at the same time running the risk of causing France to lose Algeria at the very moment when the decline of the rebellion is becoming evident? . . . How can you listen to the liars and the conspirators...
...usual in the wild confusion of Indonesian affairs, the situation was desperate but not serious. Sending police into shops to stop further price boosts, the government blamed the drop-off mainly on Chinese panic buying. Actually, the government has gone on financing the deficit incurred fighting the 1958 rebellion by printing more rupiahs than the exports of Indonesia's rich natural resources (nearly half the world's rubber, a fifth of its tin, a third of its copra) could handily pay for. But 95% of Indonesia's 90 million inhabitants, living in a subsistence rural economy that...
...Already more Frenchmen had been killed by Frenchmen than in the 1958 uprising that brought De Gaulle back to power. The cruel irony was that this outbreak had in fact been successfully provoked by Algeria's Moslem rebels. Assembling in Tripoli in mid-December, the leaders of the rebellion reorganized their "government" by dropping four extremist "ministers" (known as "the men of Cairo" and "the men of Peking") and giving increased power to three ex-guerrilla commanders headed by tough, commonsensical Belkacem Krim (TIME, July 7, 1958). Since De Gaulle has long insisted that he will deal only with...
...invading Assyrians. His marriage to Jezebel was a shrewd diplomatic move, since she was a princess of the powerful neighboring kingdom of Phoenicia. The record is not clear, but apparently Ahab's mistake, in regard to his later reputation, was to oppose a religious faction that instigated a rebellion against his son Joram and then put itself in the right by writing the Book of Kings. But in spite of the shower of curses that the prophets called down upon Ahab, he ruled for 23 years, and only after his death was Jezebel thrown to the dogs. "The Bible...
Camus posed the most difficult of all questions, slavery, and offered the most difficult of all answers, rebellion. Life was meaningless without two things--its senseless suffering, and the honorable facing of suffering...