Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...culturally homogeneous, and shares more closely its own brand of Islamic religion. Moreover, the royal family is closely allied with the religious leaders and popular as well with the rest of the people. Nor is the kingdom beset by a teeming urban center with an underclass ripe for revolt. Observes one U.S. expert: "You really don't have the same economic strains in the modernization process. The government has kept inflation to around 8% a year, and there simply isn't any unemployment." Even so, it is not all that certain that the tradition-minded Saudis will want...
...Again "Satisfaction" became the focus of discussion--the first Jagger-Richards song about youth discontent with the status quo, the analysts pronounced in retrospect. As the Stones withdrew culturally into the psychedelic-drug world that would ultimately cost them Brian Jones, they were labelled leaders-in-exile of the revolt. "Street Fightin Man" was dubbed an "anthem...
...born-again general steals a junior officers' revolt in Guatemala...
...suffering a string of setbacks in trying to justify its El Salvador policy. The most dramatic was caused by a young Nicaraguan captured in El Salvador, who had been flown to Washington on the understanding that he would tell of his role as a Sandinista leader of the Salvadoran revolt. State Department officials walked him through his expected testimony, which had been shown on television in San Salvador earlier. But at a press conference three hours later, he recanted his story. Officials feel that attempting to prove that the Nicaraguan was lying, or trying to prolong the issue by releasing...
...California Rate Revolt...