Word: revolted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...month since he became governor of revolt-torn Cyprus, Britain's Sir Hugh Foot has worked unflaggingly to build what he calls "bridges of trust" between his administration and the Greek and Turkish inhabitants of the island. Five days before Christmas, he set off celebrations in Nicosia by releasing from detention camps 89 men and 11 women accused of supporting EOKA, the Greek-Cypriot rebel force. Where his predecessor, Field Marshal Sir John Harding, commonly moved about in a heavily escorted bulletproof car. Sir Hugh toured the island's villages on horseback, stopping off in coffee houses...
...best air force in South America, a 200-plane wing including Canberras, Sabre jets and Vampires, rose in revolt last week against its commanding officer, Venezuela's Dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez, 43. Because the airmen quickly lost heart when other armed forces failed to join them, the revolution failed. But Major General Pérez Jiménez, far from relaxing over an easy win, was left nervous and nettled...
...denunciation by the world. The restless spirit of dissent seethed in Rumania, in East Germany, even in docile Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria. In France and Italy, in every Western country, the Communist parties were in turmoil; everywhere veteran comrades were resigning in outrage over his brutal suppression of the Hungarian revolt. At the December 1956 Plenum of the Communist Party Central Committee in Moscow, he was conspicuously not one of the speakers...
...month ago, Hungary's Premier Janos Kadar returned from Moscow's 40th Anniversary celebration with new orders from his Kremlin bosses: finish off the trials of those who led the 1956 revolt, sentence them heavily, spare no one-priest, worker, soldier or political leader. Last week Kadar was zealously carrying out his orders. Currently in the dock were...
Indonesia. President Sukarno last week prepared to leave his revolt and dissent-torn country for a prolonged rest. Both he and the country needed it. Sukarno, in a wild bid to whip up enthusiasm for Indonesia's claim to Dutch New Guinea, has brought the country's economy almost to a standstill with his reckless and illegal seizures of Dutch commercial and agricultural properties. Whether the country's well-organized Communist Party may make a bid for power, or whether it will be effectively countered by the anti-Communist officers of the army, is still in doubt...