Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only last January, after quelling a settlers' revolt in Algiers and cracking down hard on its army backers, the President had seemed the unchallenged master of events, quite evidently on his way to ending the Algerian rebellion by applying his proclaimed principle of self-determination. Then, at Melun last summer, he laid down such exacting terms at the first peace parleys that the rebels turned away and flung themselves into the arms of Moscow and Peking, in search of military and diplomatic support...
There was no longer any mention of the possibility that Algeria would choose union with France. To the open threats of some army officers that they will revolt if Algeria is lost, De Gaulle replied that he would call a popular referendum, if necessary, to put through his Algerian decision. More than that, he threatened to dissolve Parliament and, as a last resort, take up the dictatorial powers open to him under his constitution's Article 16 if extremists stand...
...other key games, alert Army defeated fading Syracuse, 9-6. Spotting Navy ten points, Duke rallied in the second half to spoil the undefeated record of the midshipmen 19-10. In the Big Eight, Iowa State continued the revolt against long-time champion Oklahoma (TIME, Nov. 7) by winning 10-6 for its first victory over the Sooners since...
...team of archaeologists headed by a Divinity School professor has discovered evidence to verify and date the Biblical account of an ancient Hebrew revolt...
...Eight weeks ago Lemus got too tough even for El Salvador. When parading students protested a ban on public meetings, his police responded with clubs, fire hoses and point-blank rifle fire; boys were beaten and several girls were raped. Horrified by such excess and fearful of total, bloody revolt, the nation's respectable moderates organized a preventive coup...