Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thousands of young men spend their time playing dominoes and drinking beer in murky cafes off the Didouche Mourad, Algiers' principal thoroughfare. One diplomat described them as "hooligans in the making" and suggested that the government ought to be worried. So far there are no signs of incipient revolt, and Correspondent Scott found the atmosphere in Algiers one of phlegmatic indolence rather than seething resentment. Graffiti are rare in a secret-police state, but on one lamppost, he noted, had been scribbled the lament "Triste Algerie...
Even so, the placid, good-humored Malagasy people, an assortment of Malay-Polynesians and Africans, hardly complained until a year ago. Then, a violent revolt in the south against the regime of President Philibert Tsiranana left 800 dead. Tsiranana, an ailing autocrat who had ruled his country since its independence from France in 1960, responded by jailing 500 troublemakers. He also blamed it all on the U.S. embassy and expelled the American ambassador as well as five members of the embassy staff...
...With absorbing interest and deepening wonder, I read your story of ITT [May 1]. It left me with a creeping sensation of fear. What dedication to the almighty dollar! What price success? What monsters possess us? I can now better appreciate the revolt of young people against the Establishment...
...national "uprising" of South Vietnamese against the Thieu regime. That uprising has not materialized, and the flood of some 600,000 refugees from embattled areas suggests that the NVA soldiers have not been received as liberators. It is doubtful, though, that Hanoi seriously expected the South Vietnamese to revolt. The current campaign is obviously intended to produce a military victory, regardless of the cost in lives...
...revolt against Inönü was led by his protégé and heir apparent, Bülent Ecevit. When Turkey's elected government was toppled last year by a military coup, Inönü and Ecevit disagreed over the future course of party policy. Ecevit resigned as the Republican People's secretary-general, and Inönü, perhaps unwisely, called the party to an extraordinary congress last week for a vote of confidence. "Either you choose me or him," Inönü told members. By a vote of 709 to 503, they...