Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...destined to pass the Senate as well, either at the end of this session or early next year. Indeed, Senator Jacob Javits, 73, is preparing an amendment that would completely phase out mandatory retirement over a five-year period. This abrupt, stunning legislative success is the hallmark of another revolt in America, this time by the aged. The 1960s was the decade of aroused youth; the 1970s may well belong to their grandparents. Some 23 million Americans, about 10% of the population, are 65 or over. Numbers alone give them political clout, because they vote more consistently than younger groups...
Homeowners are not yet ready for open revolt, but growing numbers are howling bloody murder. California's United Organization of Taxpayers claims a membership of more than 70,000 and is pushing to get a petition for property tax reductions on the state ballot. Just under 500,000 signatures are needed; the organization fell only 1,427 short of collecting that many earlier this year. In Washington, D.C., where assessments have jumped 75% in the past four years, furious homeowners forced the city council in July to pass acts that exempt the aged, blind and disabled from some...
...increased with each day at his desk. In seven months he has played host to no fewer than 18 foreign heads of state. Before each meeting he has read up on his guest. In the case of Menachem Begin, Israel's new Premier, Carter digested his book The Revolt. By the time they parted, Carter liked Begin for his intellect and warm manner. But Begin returned home and announced that three Israeli settlements on captured Arab territory would be legally recognized. The President's opinion of Begin plummeted. Now Carter is not very trusting...
...Grunwick siege painfully dramatizes the Labor government's precarious dependence on the trade unions, whose unpopularity among nonunionists is rapidly rising. Against the backdrop of the large-scale workers' revolt against wage freezes, the Grunwick strike reinforces the public impression that trade unions are uncontrollable...
Real Center. Lefebvre based his revolt on history. "We are acting for the good of the church," he insisted. "Who is the Pope? What is the Vatican? It is only the residence for Peter's successor. The real center is the Holy Church. If they ask us what is our future, then we say, 'Our future is our past.' " With that, he ordained-against Vatican orders -14 priests and 16 subdeacons, an act that could start the century's largest Roman Catholic schism...