Word: revolted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This need to cut everyone down to size (leveling is its economic equivalent) made the satellite leaders an unlikely source of revolt. Seemingly, there is not a potential Tito in the lot. The man who pulled Yugoslavia out of the Moscow solar system was a Yugoslav hero in his own right; he fought his own battles, liberated his country and built his reputation without need of the bayonets of the Red army. Unlike Tito, the East European satellites have no orbits of their own; they are just the men in Moscow's moons-without popular following in their countries...
...another. At first the Jakarta governments laughed off the rebels as "high-spirited young men still excited by events." When Kartosuwirjo's raiders cut railroad lines, ambushed convoys, even looted the suburbs of the capital city of Jakarta, the government finally sent an army to stamp out the revolt. It soon learned that religion is stronger than politics in Moslem Indonesia. The government's Moslem troops balked at fighting their co-religionists in Darul Islam; one entire battalion deserted to Kartosuwirjo...
...join his Revolutionary Party and give a day's wages every week to the cause. Tactfully, he brought the proud generals of the Ten Years War under his command; incongruously, he haggled with munitions salesmen in New York hotel lobbies. More than anyone else, he touched off the revolt...
...Eight days in jail never hurt anybody," said Juan Perón last year in one of his frequent pep talks to Buenos Aires police. Under this stern dictum, made legal by the "state of internal war" decreed after the 1951 army revolt, thousands of Argentines were in & out of jail during the past year. Usually they were arrested, jailed and released without any formal charge. And, almost without exception, the real reason was that they were known or believed to oppose the regime...
Battle Renewed The long-smoldering war between the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Air Force is blazing again in the corridors of the Pentagon with the fiercest intensity since the "revolt of the admirals" in 1949. One reason is that the services, after the fat days of Korean war appropriations, are beginning to scramble for funds in anticipation of leaner days under Eisenhower. Another is that, as Inauguration Day grows closer, retiring Defense Secretary Bob Lovett is losing his firm grip. A third and more fundamental reason is that the Navy is certain it has finally found a method (secret...