Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lawlessness is to understand that the only thing that makes our Government work is the recognition by the individual of the obligation to accept the majority opinion once lawfully stated, no matter which side he may have taken in' the debating stage. In equating our colony's revolt against King George with the current radicals' attacks on our established democratic forms, you seem to understand this as poorly as the rioters...
...bizarre, rebellion-plagued history of the Congo since independence, Pierre Mulele authored one of the bloodier chapters. Almost five years ago, he launched a revolt against the "profiteers of independence"-the central government-and within months led his ill-equipped but relatively well-disciplined bands to control much of rich Kwilu province in the interior...
...criminal. A military court of three judges-their names were not revealed-convened at Camp Tshatshi, Kinshasa's paracommando garrison, and after 15 hours of deliberation sentenced Mulele to death before a firing squad. The government's official explanation of the trial: Mulele had planned a Communist revolt against Mobutu with the aid of Cuban-trained rebels...
...arrival in Argentina (which, along with Bolivia, promptly offered him asylum), Belaúnde asserted that he had been ousted by a mere cuartelezo-a barracks revolt. The bulk of the armed forces, he believed, was not involved. But the first communiqué issued by the junta was signed by the chiefs of all three Peruvian military services. Within hours after Belaúnde's departure, General Juan Velasco Alvarado, the 58-year-old army commander and president of Peru's Joint Chiefs of Staff, took the oath as his successor before a candlelit crucifix in the presidential...
...current Mexican student revolt, Gerassi said, bears more resemblance to the unrest of American youth than to outbreaks in other parts of Latin America. The Mexican students, he noted, are largely from the middle class, and are fighting for "the humanization of society," not primarily for a share in their society's wealth...