Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months the bush telegraph of Brunei had flashed the warning that deep inside the Delaware-size oil-rich British protectorate on the north coast of Borneo, a secret rebel army was rehearsing a revolt against the Sultan. Repeatedly, government officials dismissed the story as "another jungle rumor." But last week, in a brief, bloody rebellion, rumor materialized into fact, bringing the threat of a long, nasty guerrilla war in the steaming swamps and forests of the protectorate, and imperiling the prospects of the Malaysian Federation...
...little old man laughed at the notion of a rank-and-file revolt. To James C. ("Little Caesar") Petrillo, 70, onetime autocratic overlord of 260,000 U.S. musicians, it seemed like a piccolo challenging a calliope. "Everything is tops," cried Petrillo...
...that Nasser does not really intend to pull out his thousands of troops in any case. The Saudi Arabs are certain that Egypt's boss has his eye on their huge oil fields-fifth biggest producers in the world-and hopes to use Yemen as a springboard for revolt in the rest of the Arabian peninsula...
Douglas noted that the Russian standard of living, although lower than America's, makes it "a member of the affluent society" and "a symbol of revolt against the status quo" to the countries of the Middle East and Africa...
Egypt has poured 10,000 troops into Yemen since Sallal's September revolt, and is reportedly spending $20 million a week to supply them with Soviet-built tanks, jets and other armaments. Nasser's navy shelled Saudi Arabian towns along the Red Sea; his pilots attacked five villages across the border...