Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Archbishop Joseph Grosz, 73, acting head of the Hungarian Roman Catholic Church; of a heart attack; at Kalocsa, Hungary. Arrested in 1951, Archbishop Grosz "confessed" to assorted anti-Red crimes and was sentenced to 15 years in prison, but received amnesty shortly before the bloody Budapest revolt in 1956 that sent Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty into refuge at the U.S. legation.* Grosz was able to keep the church alive in Red Hungary only by obeying most regime directives, including an oath of allegiance to the Communist constitution...
Does Arab Fight Arab? Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser took to Cairo radio to denounce the revolt. In somber, ragged sentences, he declared: "What happened today is more serious than Suez. Any division in national unity is much more serious than foreign aggression." To "straighten out the situation," as he put it in his broadcast, Nasser ordered his fleet and 2,000 paratroops to take seaport Latakia, started commandeering merchantmen to haul ground troops to Syria, which is seperated from Egypt by Jordan, Lebanon and Israel. Suddenly, Nasser changed his mind. He called off the attack just after...
Less Than Reverence. For Nasser, as the Middle East's most fervent apostle of Arab unity, the revolt was a crushing blow. Not only was the U.A.R. in ruins, and with it Nasser's grandiose dreams of a superstate encompassing the whole Arab world. Nasser's myth would also be badly bruised in the eyes of millions who idolized him as a crusader against colonialism. By its impassioned rejection of Egyptian "tyranny," the revolution could only deepen the suspicion that under the guise of pan-Arabism Nasser pursues a Pharaonic imperialism. After Nasser's fulminations against...
...before leaving for his first whistle-stop tour since a terrorist's bomb came within a damp fuse of killing him, De Gaulle issued a brief communiqué. As of Oct. 1, he announced, he would relinquish the extraordinary powers he had assumed* to quell the Algerian army revolt in April...
...this reckoning, Communism and the Resistance movement were the major episodes in the education of France's brilliant Poet-Essayist-Novelist Louis Aragon, 63. Aragon was always in revolt; before he became a Communist in 1927, he was one of the daddies of Dadaism and switched later to the surrealist movement. As an underground fighter, he fought with conspicuous gallantry against the Nazis. After the war, Aragon became anchor man on the French Communists' intellectual first team. Unlike fellow Communist Jean Paul Sartre-who has often strayed off the Red reservation-Aragon has dutifully echoed the party line...