Word: revolted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With that he declared to Legco the imminent end of the official state of emergency under which Kenya has been ruled since the days of 1952, when the bloody Mau Mau uprising gripped the East African colony. For the revolt-infected tribes-the Kikuyu, Embu and Meru-it would mean the end of the passbook system that rigidly limited their travel, and the end of forced communal labor and mandatory residence in villages. For 3,000 prisoners still behind bars or barbed wire for revolutionary activity, it would mean freedom under a sweeping amnesty program; only a few score...
...Herald Tribune's Women's Feature Editor Eugenia Sheppard sparked a short-lived rebellion by breaking a fashion story before press week. An emergency luncheon meeting of fashion editors and Couture Group representatives was held at "21," and the revolt ended after what Columnist Sheppard still recalls as "the time I was served up on toast...
Moscow, and hence the whole Communist world, into formally proclaiming the Algerian revolt a "just war of colonial liberation...
...with the Administration too concerned with the "spirit of Camp David" and too reluctant to tip the boat, the U.N. has in turn been reluctant even to use strong language against palpable Chinese repression of the Tibetan revolt. Admittedly, there is a legal question of jurisdiction, just as there was, significantly, with the Sudetenland and Manchuria and Ethiopia...
...personal fiat, it moves further and further from its earlier liberalism. In more than nine months of life, the revolutionary government has hardly begun to fulfill its initial promises, and Dr. Castro can expect increasing, and perhaps more violent, criticism. Anti-communist army officers are already threatening a revolt...