Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Article 7 ran out last week, an estimated 3,300 Brazilians had lost their government jobs. Mostly they were professors, middle-echelon executives in government enterprises, local political appointees. The big surprise was how harshly the military dealt with officers who had wavered, however briefly, in the flash revolt; 26 of 82 active generals have been forced into retirement, along with eight of 68 admirals...
Word of the revolt brewing inside Curtis Publishing Co. has been wide spread in the trade for months-partly because of leaks from the combatants themselves, who have been jockeying for outside editorial support. Since neither the image nor the health of this once sturdy old magazine house, now fallen on lean times, could possibly improve by airing the story of a savage, behind-scenes struggle for power, the contestants might have been expected to keep this intelligence where it be longed: behind scenes. But last week Curtis' unhappy secret was out. In a story obviously leaked by participants...
...enemies were legion, but none were so bitter as the tribesmen of the Djebel Druze, a rugged group of hills in southern Syria, where in 1954 revolt erupted after years of discontent. Shishekly, in a four-week campaign, crushed the Druzes, hammering their mountain strongholds with tanks, planes and artillery. The powerful Druze clan of the Ghazali took some of the heaviest casualties...
Though the revolt was smashed, it caused Shishekly's downfall. Many army officers opposed the ruthlessness of the campaign and, within weeks, the garrison of Aleppo mutinied against "the despot Shishekly, stepson of imperialism." Not waiting to argue the point, Shishekly abandoned his wife and children in Damascus and fled across the Anti-Lebanon range in a snowstorm to the safety of Beirut. During the next few years he vainly plotted a return to power from Saudi Arabia and Switzerland...
...coming to mark the 100th anniversary of the beginnings of Cana dian confederation, and there lies the trouble. In the last few years, the long-smoldering antagonism between English and French Canadians has erupted in bitter, open division. Centered in the province of Quebec, French Canadians are in revolt against what they regard as a century of British domination; they demand a stronger voice in federal affairs and greater provincial autonomy. A small but growing number wants to split Canada into separate nations; a few even preach violence against everything British in Canada, including Queen Elizabeth...