Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week a somewhat different version of the speech appeared in Hong Kong's South China Morning Post. There was no reference to Poland, but Deng said that "some comrades don't understand the situation" in China, in that the revolt was not merely the work of "misguided" people but also that of a truly "rebellious clique." The second version also contained approving references to the "open policy," allowing Chinese ties to the outside. Said a senior Asian diplomat in Beijing: "The line to the world is reassurance. To China, it is terror...
...injected into rabbits' eyes, in their effort to persuade the cosmetics industry to cut down on animal testing. Last week Avon Products announced that it would stop such experiments. Even Ralph Nader, the quintessential business basher, has adopted a more moderate approach. Nader, who last fall led the California revolt against excessive auto-insurance premiums, recently cited the auto industry and its suppliers for their joint quality-control efforts. Firestone, for example, allows automakers to inspect its plants and equipment...
...though everyone, whatever his assigned role, understood the larger meaning of the drama. Something is happening in the Communist world, a revolt against the system. From the Baltic to the China Sea, people are straining against the confines of Communism, demanding a greater share in the world's riches and a fair share in their own governance...
...Marxist President, Lieut. Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam, gave a group of progovernment dignitaries a pep talk and then flew off for a four-day state visit to East Germany. But within a few hours of his departure early last week, a group of senior army officers were in revolt against Mengistu's rigidly Marxist twelve-year-old regime...
...attempted coup began when rebel officers seized the Defense Ministry. Major General Haile Giorgis Habte Mariam, the Defense Minister, refused to join the revolt and was killed. There were reports of MiG-21s and helicopter ( gunships screeching over the capital and of tanks and armored personnel carriers converging on the ministry. Meanwhile, in Asmara, the northern provincial capital and Ethiopia's second largest city, Mengistu's Second Army, some 150,000 strong, was in mutiny. In sympathy with the rebellion, the Eritrean People's Liberation Front announced a two-week cease-fire in its 27- year-old war of secession...