Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brown. At San Diego State College, Kennedy accepted an honorary doctor of laws degree. Under heavy pressure to deliver a ringing civil rights declaration, the President's San Diego speech had been billed as just that. But it fell far short. Carefully skirting mention of the Negro revolt in the South, Kennedy told his audience that "American children today do not enjoy equal educational opportunities for two reasons: One is economic and the other is racial." Concluded the President: "We must move ahead swiftly in both areas...
Beyond Dixie. Yet if the U.S. North thought it could view the South's spectacle with any complacency, it was wrong. The Negro revolt had burst all regional boundaries. In Philadelphia, Negro pickets battled with helmeted policemen during a week of demonstrations against job discrimination at a school construction site. Knives and broken bottles flashed, more than 20 people were hurt...
...outgunned, Aydemir, who had again donned his colonel's uniform, raced for safety back to the War College. As government troops threatened to level the building, he sneaked out a back door, later was captured in a friend's home while changing back to civilian clothes. The revolt was ended less than twelve hours after it started. Seven were dead and 26 others wounded, including Aydemir's successor as commandant of the War College, who was shot in the leg by his own cadets when he tried to persuade them to surrender...
Portuguese infantry patrols in northern Angola peered at the skies last week and waited prayerfully for the end of the rains. In the third year of their campaign to quell a stubborn native revolt against Portuguese rule, government forces counted on dry weather to throw armored units and paratroops against the African guerrillas, who throughout the rainy season had mercilessly harassed the bogged-down Europeans...
...Tory Party in 1916 had helped bring Lloyd George to power, only to resign four years later. Ailing and self-effacing, Law was a reluctant matador. But by suasion and sly pressure, Beaverbrook finally maneuvered his hero into the famed Carlton Club meeting at which Law captained a revolt of Tory M.P.s that dissolved the coalition and toppled the Big Beast. Though Law won the election, he was Prime Minister for only seven months-and confounded his eminence grise by rejecting Beaverbrook's vision of imperial Utopia...