Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...aborted coup. He nonetheless professed full sympathy for its aims. "It is the natural right of a people, when they are deprived of freedom, of human rights, to rebel," he said. "It was an insurrection. It was not a plot. It is Khomeini himself who is pushing people to revolt." Bakhtiar, who has been an active leader of the anti-Khomeini forces among Iranian exiles in Europe, had no choice but to deny involvement. To do otherwise might jeopardize the political asylum that the French government gave him after he fled from revolutionary Iran last year. In London, however...
...Sierra Leone, the "creole" descendants of these settlers still dominate the country's business and educational elite-as did scions of the freed slaves in Liberia until the recent coup. Sierra Leone gained its independence from Britain in 1961; seven years later, Stevens took power after a revolt led by low-ranking soldiers. That power grab bore a certain resemblance to the army-led coup in Liberia, headed by Master Sergeant Samuel Doe, that ousted the long-entrenched Tolbert regime...
...This time his tax-cutting plan met strong opposition from civil service unions and other civic organizations, which argued that it would benefit the rich and cut government services to the poor. Result: Californians last week voted down Prop. 9 by 61% to 39%. Does this mean the tax revolt is over? Not likely. Noting that Californians had enjoyed $26 billion in tax reductions over three years, Governor Jerry Brown declared, "This is not the end of the tax revolt. It's a pause...
Weizman will almost certainly do penance in the political wilderness, at least for a while. Although Begin's aides accused the Defense Minister of attempting to provoke a palace revolt, no one in the Cabinet or Weizman's Herut Party followed him out the door. Weizman denied any such intention, but he told TIME last week that he would not be unhappy to see Begin's government collapse. In fact, the timing of his departure could hardly have been calculated to do more damage to Begin's grip on power. Beset by an annual inflation rate...
...Korean CIA-responded with a far-reaching crackdown. It closed all 212 universities, detained hundreds of student militants, and arrested leading political figures, notably Kim Dae Jung, a dissident leader and a popular native son of Kwangju's province. At that, the city rose up in revolt, and angry demonstrations took place in more than a dozen neighboring towns...