Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...every individual must take the consequence of a mistake if he attempts to stir up the body of a people to a revolt and should be disappointed...
...elements of the people are responsible for this sure acted like terminal morons. Made by Gillo Pontecorvo, who created Battle of Algiers. Starring Marlon Brando as a British secret agent. Filmed in color in the Caribbean with hundreds of extras. About Dutch (or Portugese--can't remember) colonialism and revolt in the 19th century. And very, very fine...
Spinola, a war hero from the stalemate in Guinea-Bissau, did not lead the army revolt but is credited with inspiring it by his publication last February of a book, "Portugal and the Future," which said the wars Lisbon was waging couldn't be won militarily and political solution was necessary. The 64-year-old cavalryman, who wears a monocle and carries a riding crop, rose to lead a junta after the officers who had begun the rebellion called...
...around a theme. "We play editorial roulette," says Brown. "We try to anticipate what's going to be hot." Sometimes it is uncanny how hot the subject can be. A pamphlet entitled "U.S. Prisons: Schools for Crime" was published in September 1971, just two weeks before the Attica revolt. Other timely topics have been impeachment and women's liberation, as well as lighter subjects like "body language" and the Beatles' lyrics. After describing a bloodless coup in Bolivia, one pamphlet suggested that students analyze the power structure of their schools as if they were going to stage...
Taxpayers' Revolt. The process begins by setting labor directly against government. Police, firemen, sanitation workers and other public service employees, battered by inflation, strike for higher wages and benefits. Services to the general public grow worse, and the infection spreads. The ideal of public service erodes?children watch their teachers walk picket lines. The government becomes an adversary. To yield to labor demands heats up the inflation further; to resist spreads further chaos. With paychecks squeezed on one side by inflation and on the other by rising government expenses, a taxpayers' revolt of one kind or another grows likely. Observes...