Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. John William Wright Patman, 82, 24-term Texas Democratic Congressman and dean of the House of Representatives who, before his overthrow in last year's Young Turk revolt, had served as chairman of the Banking and Currency Committee since 1963; of pneumonia; in Bethesda, Md. Baptist Patman, a vintage populist from Patman's Switch, in the northeast Texas cotton country, never flagged in his hostility to big banks, big money and high interest rates. Always a storm center, and often accused of dictatorial tactics, Patman helped win World War I veterans a $3 billion bonus...
Coming on the eve of Prime Minister Harold Wilson's 60th birthday, the victory at Coventry was icing on his cake. Just a few weeks ago, he was facing incipient revolt from his party's left wing. The White Paper had warned that unchecked public spending would soon gobble up half of an average wage earner's salary in taxes. But to the left, the report's recipe for reducing spending sounded more like a Tory tract than a Labor manifesto. Said former Overseas Aid Minister Judith Hart: "The real struggle is not between the official...
Class Enemies. The revolt was doomed, however, when the unions refused to join. Jack Jones, powerful boss of the huge (1.8 million members) Transport and General Workers Union, denounced those "enemies of the working class" whose disloyalty might topple Wilson and usher in the Tories. The Coventry election, moreover, underlined the distance between the Laborite left and the grass-roots workers it professes to represent. The voters have not clamored, as leftist leaders have, for heavy expenditures to end unemployment. Even with 1.25 million jobless, politicians have found that their constituents complain more about inflation than about unemployment. This could...
...M.P.L.A. announced last week that it would pursue a policy of nonalignment and deny military bases to any foreign power. At the 15th anniversary celebration of its revolt against Portuguese colonial rule last week, Luanda circumspectly kept Cuban troops and Soviet advisers out of sight. Intelligence sources, meanwhile, said that the Cuban troop airlift has been halted for two weeks. Some observers speculated that a secret quid pro quo had been worked out in exchange for the South African withdrawal...
...case, with all the potential political and social dislocation it implies, the price of social peace in the metropolitan countries is likely to become a great deal higher. For the West, at least, Johns Hopkins Professor of International Relations Robert Tucker's assessment in Commentary appears correct: the OPEC revolt represents "the latest manifestations of an egalitarianism which, if permitted to run its logical course, is likely to result first in chaos then in an international system far harsher than today's or even yesterday's system...