Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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CHILE: RIGHT-WING REVOLT...
True enough. Even before the army revolt, Allende seemed to be heading for the worst crisis in his three years in office. In fact, the besieged President had charged all week long that a "right-wing coup" was imminent. The signs were certainly...
...martial law last year to deal with a 'nattonal emergency,' an uprising among allegedly 'Moslem fanatics' in the southernmost island of the nation. Although news reports from the revolutionary zones have been scarce, it seems reasonable to surmise that something more than a mere religious quarrel is prompting the revolt...
...short term, anti-regime activity rising from a host of factors: charges of corruption within government, soaring inflation and spreading student unrest. Capping the dissent was the mutiny aboard the Greek destroyer Velos, which some sources believe was intended to be part of a wider navy-sponsored revolt...
...flees the plantation, Rosalie lapses into madness--an epileptic state in which the slave-child first takes for herself the name of Solitude. She survives a pair of doting masters, the initial freedoms gained by the French Revolution, the forced-labor corvees which are then resumed, and a subsequent revolt. She joins other fugitives slaves almost by accident; Solitude becomes a figure of legend only in their final battle, fighting against French armies who hope to re-establish slave trade. Violent revolt is the final, inevitable, heroic support of the meager life she is left with...