Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...revolt failed. Premier Souvanna Phouma, a neutralist who might have shared Ma's views, was out of the country. The three prestigious prisoners escaped. And, on the instructions of American Ambassador William Sullivan, U.S. officers from the nearby Udorn airbase in Thailand saw to it that Ma's planes did not leave their base at Savannakhet for the threatened second strike. After a hasty conference with a government representative who flew to Savannakhet, Ma and eleven of his pilots fled across the border to exile in Thailand...
...operations were a staggering $3,000,000 in the red. Within three years, Joe Culligan had set the radio network to humming profitably along again. Later, as president of the beleaguered Curtis Publishing Co., his skill at troubleshooting misfired, and he was forced out after an executive-suite revolt. But, as he is fond of saying, "a comeback career seems to be my lot." Now he has gone back to radio, this time as president of the nation's biggest network, the Mutual Broadcasting System. Culligan wants to expand the system from 519 affiliated stations to 600. That...
Troubles have been piling up for Ludwig Erhard ever since his Christian Democrats suffered a severe setback in July's state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia. Critics inside and outside his own party have blamed him for everything from a revolt within Germany's top military command to the sinking of an overage U-boat in the North...
...year to the day after the abortive coup that was meant to hand Indonesia over to Communism. Now the anti-Communist army officers who put down the revolt were preparing to show the nation just who had been responsible. Before a military court sat a lean little man whose only name was Subandrio. He had been President Sukarno's Foreign Minister, secret-police boss and closest confidant. Last week Subandrio was on trial for his life...
...feelings evoked by the phrase "black power" has influenced a whole generation of leaders. f To some it means political power, to some separatism, to some merely a rejection of non-violence. To the youths in their late teens, black power is symbolized by the riots--or the Revolt, as Karenga calls it. It means that the Man can't come down and "whup" them without getting whupped back...