Word: revolt
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...coup in Uganda involved a classic case of arms bouncing from country to country. The five Sherman tanks used by General Idi Amin Dada in the army revolt against President Milton Obote were originally sent by Washington to the Soviets under the World War II Lend-Lease Act. Moscow later transferred them to the Egyptians, from whom they were captured by the Israelis in 1967. Israel overhauled the tanks and then delivered them to Uganda as part of an aid program...
Most education majors suffer in silence through dull required courses about "teaching methods." But Mrs. II-ene lanniello, a senior at the University of Bridgeport, has decided to stage a one-woman revolt. Claiming that the "Methods and Materials in Teaching Basic Business Subjects" course she had to take last year was "worthless," she sued the school to get her tuition and expenses back...
...hilt by Libya, Algeria and other militant Arab powers-ambushed and burned seven fuel trucks 30 miles from the Eritrean port of Assab. Two days later, they destroyed an Ethiopian army column, then launched the heaviest assault on the provincial capital in the 13-year history of the revolt...
...What is disturbing is that he virtually says that the U.S. Intervention was the only reason for Allende's downfall! The author of this editorial must have an extremely low opinion of the Chilean people if he thinks that a mere $8 million is sufficient to cause a drastic revolt. Nowhere in his editorial does LeMoyne mention the Chilean people's support of the military coup, which drowns out any pragmatic effect of the American aid. The author's derogatory implications are clear in the following sentence: "The end product of the policies of the U.S. government towards Chile...
...forum for revolt was the House Democratic Caucus, which consists of all 291 Democrats who will begin new terms in January. Long an ineffectual debating society for the party's many factions, it emerged dramatically as an instrument of power. The moderate leadership and ambitious rebels combined to move first against the House Ways and Means Committee and its once indomitable chairman, Wilbur Mills. Earlier this year the House had voted to force Mills to subdivide his committee into four subcommittees with separate chairmen and thus dilute his authority. Angered at his unwillingness to act on such legislation...