Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...student revolt spread out of the Latin Quarter and gathered supporters across the country, Prendergast called for reinforcements. London Correspondent Keith Johnson made it to Paris as fast as he could-via Brussels and a poky rented Volkswagen. He began his new beat with a ten-mile hike with worker demonstrators. His day's outing ended in the Latin Quarter, where, along with Paris Correspondent Roger Stone, he dodged police clubs and flying cobblestones. "I always said Paris was a great city to walk in," said Johnson, "but this is ridiculous...
Everywhere, France writhed in revolt and dishevelment. Half of the nation's 16 million workers were on strike, and most of the rest were idled by a massive transportation shutdown. The country's students barricaded themselves in their universities. Farmers defiantly parked their tractors across the nation's highways. Protesters surged through Paris streets by the thousands each night, battling police and riot troopers. With startling suddenness, the serenity of Gaullist France had been swept away in what the French are already calling "the Davs...
...government proved ineffectual at suppressing defiance. "I respect only those who resist me," De Gaulle once said, "but I cannot tolerate them." This time, the pent-up suppressions and frustrations created by ten years of orderly Gaullism not only erupted in force but swiftly widened into large-scale social revolt. The blow was doubly painful; the events irrevocably tarnished De Gaulle's authority when he was already at an age (77) that would scarcely allow his reign to stretch for many more years...
...control of the streets. The government at first used stern measures, sending thousands of police in waves to storm the barricades and beat the students to the ground with rubber truncheons. Then, alarmed by the growing toll of injuries, the government lost its resolve to smash the student revolt; it withdrew its police, and in effect ceded the field to the students. By that time, much of France had rallied to the students' side-and the spread of revolt began in earnest...
...much trouble among its 12,000 students that authorities panicked and closed the place down. That lifted Cohn-Bendit from obscurity to notoriety, and all week long he moved from rally to rally, haranguing the Left Bank students as they groped for a sense of direction in their revolt against the government...