Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since Russian tanks crushed the Budapest uprising in 1956. Communist Boss Janos Kadar, 50. has ruled Hungary with judicious use of carrot and club. He ruthlessly exterminated the revolt leaders but tried to woo the Hungarian people with consumer goods and such self-deprecating slogans as "He who is not against me is with me." To get the faltering economy moving. Kadar replaced many of the inefficient Red managers with non-Communist Hungarian technicians, arguing that "political reliability and professional competence are two different things...
Kadar's efforts to rally the country behind him have not been a stunning success, but at least the people are quiet. Said a veteran of the Budapest revolt: "You agree to work for the Reds so you can live, so your wife can eat and your children can get an education. You try not to think about it too much." But if the people were tamely cooperative, the local Communist functionaries grew bitter at their downgrading and longed for the old days of bulletheaded Matyas Rakosi and Erno Gero, who as party leaders in 1956 had invited...
...Russia and Iraq, the Kurds are a rebellious, trigger-happy breed who distrust the Arabs and traditionally hanker after little more than a fine horse, a good rifle, and a woman who can bear strong sons. For the past year, however, Iraq's Kurds have been in open revolt, last April demanded an autonomous Kurdish state in northern Iraq. Led by Red-leaning Mustafa Barzani, a onetime mullah (religious teacher) who spent twelve years of exile in Russia, Kurdish rebels have seized control of the northeast corner of Iraq, seriously imperiling the autocratic regime of Premier Abdul Karim Kassem...
Kassem's efforts to put down the revolt have been a dismal failure. He distrusts his army because one-third of its troops are of Kurdish stock, never gives raiding parties more than two days' supplies and ammunition lest they go over to the rebels. Fighting a hide-and-seek guerrilla war, the Kurds have made fools of Kassem's generals, currently have 2½ divisions -half of Kassem's army-tied up in the frustrating campaign...
...more than 100 bombs and staged several minor coup attempts. The young Nasserite officers of the Aleppo garrison, who rose against the Damascus government last April, have been separated and shifted elsewhere by the more moderate generals in control; but Nasser's propagandists still exhort the army to "revolt against reaction, feudalism and imperialism." Syria has reacted with a formal complaint to the Arab League, demanding action to stop Nasser's "aggression and interference." Most Syrian leaders favor the goals Nasser claims to seek -Arab unity, social justice, agrarian reform-but they are less than enthusiastic about Nasser...