Word: revolted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would accept "practically anybody" the Republicans nominate, but he especially eulogized Ike for doing "an outstanding job" as President. "He has brought peace . . . Today we have both peace and prosperity. A few years ago many thought it could not be done." Did he intend to lead another Southern revolt against Stevenson? "I don't think you have to organize a revolt in the South; it is already there." Reason: "The Democratic Party is controlled by the North and East, by groups of very liberal tendencies which favor going into all socialistic fields." But he balked at talk...
After the June 16 revolt against President Perón sputtered out, the singed strongman ordered 56 navy and air force officers tried by secret court martial. The sentences revealed last week were mild, considering that the prescribed penalty for rebellion by members of the armed forces is death. Seven revolt leaders, including Rear Admiral Samuel Toranzo Calderón, the alleged mastermind, were sentenced to life imprisonment, 30 others drew terms of from one to three years and the remaining 19 went free...
Much else besides balcony scenes has changed in Argentina since the bloody navy-led revolt of June 16 rocked Perón & Co. Members of opposition parties openly passed out propaganda leaflets on the streets. Jails are slowly regurgitating political prisoners. Argentines no longer glance over their shoulders before reciting an anti-Perón joke. Last week's Perón's press secretary announced that a shutdown Catholic newspaper, El Pueblo, may publish again, added that the authorities will no longer ban foreign magazines, no matter what they print about Argentina...
...went Juan Perón's "pacificator" program, the relaxation and concessions spill ing out almost daily, but always in a way that suggested that there was still steel inside the velvet glove. Whatever the true explanation, it appeared that the June 16 revolt, though a military fiasco, may have been something of a revolution after...
...Indonesia was in trouble again last week, and once again Colonel Lubis, now 33 and the army's deputy chief of staff, was in the thick of it, but not on Soekarno's side. The officers who lead Indonesia's quarter-million-man army were in revolt against Defense Minister Iwa Kusumasumantri, an admitted Marxist. They refused to accept a chief of staff he approved. Backed by the army brass, Colonel Lubis stood firm against both Kusumasumantri and Premier Ali Sastroamidjojo's government, which President Soekarno has repeatedly shored up with his own personal prestige...