Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...revolt could not be dismissed as merely another example of Kurdish cussedness. The rebels have moved steadily south out of the Zagros Mountains to within 70 miles of Baghdad, now have a quasi hold on sizable parts of Iraq. Their continued victories have also aroused non-Kurdish, democratic opponents of Premier Karim Kassem. The opposition ridicules Kassem's claim that the revolt is the fault of "British imperialists and their American stooges." blames his own bumbling for provoking the Kurds into war. Buffeted within and without, Kassem's regime is in danger of collapse...
...famed under the nom de guerre of Colonel Gori in World War II, when he led the Free French Lorraine bomber group. He has been a staunch Gaullist ever since. Fourquet was an air force brigadier in Algeria a year ago at the time of the Generals Revolt. To make clear his loyalty, he painted a huge cross of Lorraine on his personal aircraft. Shuttling busily between Oran and Algiers in the fortnight since he was appointed commander in chief in Algeria, Fourquet has devised a flexible strategy aimed at breaking up S.A.O. units and driving them into hiding...
...Listening. As Europe drifted toward a confrontation with Russia, Karl Marx, the obscure revolutionary, the author of a tract condemning his society to death in a revolt of the working class, never lost hope that free men could yet win the day. "With free institutions, unfettered industry, and emancipated thought, the people of the West will rise again to power and unity of purpose, while the Russian Colossus itself will be shattered by the progress of the masses and the explosive force of ideas...
...forces in South Vietnam seem to be trying everything short of outright fighting to stem the growing strength of the guerilla revolt. But plush relocation camps to concentrate the peasants and helicopter supply lifts cannot sustain unpopular President Diem's rule without direct U.S. military support. Even such military action, however, would be likely to succeed only in the distant future. If U.S. policy continues, as guerilla fighting spreads and more American troops pour into Vietnam, the U.S. will doubtless be involved, in a shooting capacity, with a long and messy jungle...
...Castro the invaluable favor-so essential in fastening a dictatorship on a people-of convincing the discontented that resistance is futile. Most of the diplomats and foreign journalists in Havana (who can no longer count on the frankness of those they talk to) see little chance of a popular revolt, and sense that, though greatly diminished, the reservoir of idealism and expectancy that Castro began with still exists among many campesinos...