Word: revolted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stalinists, Molotov and Kaganovich, neither of whom Malenkov normally would have chosen as allies. They did not like Khrushchev's plan either, and together the three were able momentarily to check Khrushchev's headlong pursuit of power-partly because Khrushchev was also embarrassed by the Hungarian revolt then raging. At the Central Committee meeting last December, Khrushchev's industrial plans were considerably amended. Deputy Premier Saburov, who was State Planner at that time, was replaced by Deputy Premier Pervukhin, but both apparently obstructed Khrushchev's plans-a factor which cost them their Premierships last week...
...weeks ago reported that Czechoslovakia, whose leaders have resisted liberalization more stubbornly than anyone else in Eastern Europe, is in a state comparable to "that of Poland just before the rising in Poznan." Yet Czechoslovakia, Central Europe's most prosperous nation, has long been regarded as the least revolt-minded of the satellites...
Died. Kingoro Hashimoto, 67, onetime Japanese Imperial Army Colonel, who was implicated in the abortive 1936 "February Revolt," advocate of war against China and the West, imprisoned in 1948 as a "Class A" war criminal (released in 1955) of lung cancer; in Tokyo. Stocky, dynamic Hashimoto, whose narrow military training, ignorance of the outside world and hatred of foreigners led him to believe in an easy, speedy victory over Russia, Britain and the U.S., organized the superpatriotic Japan Youth Party in 1936, and with it as political leverage, instigated the sinking of the U.S.S. Panay (1937) with no effective discipline...
Strummed Zither. This novel is the last of a fast-moving, often hilarious trilogy (The Revolt of Gunner Asch, TIME, March 5, 1956; Forward, Gunner Asch! TIME, Oct. 29) that carries its hero from his home town in Germany to the depths of Russia and back again. It opens in the war's last days as Germany is crushed between East and West. Asch, who has risen from the ranks to become a lieutenant of artillery, is part of a disorganized unit surrounded by U.S. troops. A stray Nazi colonel named Hauk and his sinister aide, Lieut. Greifer, order...
...Black Revolt. In the Maryland-sized republic, just three air hours from Miami, the weekend of turmoil only topped off a chaotic political record. In the 153 years since independence, Haiti has had two emperors, one king and 30 Presidents, only two of whom peacefully turned the office over to their successors. Haitian rulers have been fed arsenic, dynamited, driven to suicide, torn to pieces...