Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...STORY, like so many American tales, begins with a California eccentric. Nurtured on the mysterious elixir of sunshine and smog, Californians serve as a national test-track, measuring fads, products and ideas by their unique--and often contagious--standards. The sage of the tax revolt, touchstone of the most important social and economic movement of our era, seemed to emerge half from central casting and half from the Bible--the prophet come to save a nation, live and in color. His Jeremiad condemned demon government and its lecherous grope for the tax dollar; the reverberations of Howard Jarvis's leap...
...ever before. America's friendships, meanwhile, are increasingly strained, its alliances increasingly divided. The U.N. General Assembly and some other international forums are dominated by supposedly neutral nations that ritually criticize U.S. policies and reject U.S. sponsored initiatives. Pro-Western regimes in the Third World appear vulnerable to revolt and subversion. The U.S., and to a far greater extent its allies in Western Europe and Japan, depend for their very survival as economic powers on oil supplies from one of the most flammable regions on earth-the Arabian peninsula and the Persian Gulf...
...filming (in Ireland, with 300 Irish extras as American and British soldiers), and chaos erupts. The film troops, sleeping in tents, are restless, and there is a rumor that Bean will use real bullets in the filming. The Cockney crew members, led by the gaffer, threaten a workers' revolt against Bean-cum-Washington, but they hold together to film the British charge up Bunker Hill--hilariously staged, dummies and all. But they can't hold out, and the turncoat Wes, convinced that "Washington" will be a disaster, finally stops the action with the help of some redcoat extras. John Bean...
...scaling the gates of the strikebound Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk last August to lead what may be the most remarkable workers' revolt in the history of organized labor, Lech Walesa showed the world that the "inevitable" march of history is no match for the indomitable spirit of the individual will...
...demands were not met. Instead, one afternoon last week two helicopters loaded with specially trained troopers landed on the prison roof at the same instant that a squad of carabinieri on the ground blew open the prison doors and stormed inside. Just 25 hours after it began, the revolt had been smashed. Four prisoners and 23 hostages and security men were injured in the attack, but none seriously...