Word: revolted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tactics. He finds Wilson's support for the President's position "sincere" and thinks that neither the Prime Minister's increased prestige nor England's increased solvency will tempt the Labor front bench to break with Washington on Southeast Asian policy. Harlech discounts the possibility that a left-wing revolt in the Labor Party will soon force Wilson's hand. No more than thirty MP's would back such a revolt, Harlech estimates, and Wilson enjoys a majority...
...Warsaw, where some 700,000 Jews were gassed, shot, hanged or beaten to death. Steiner interviewed 15 of the 40 survivors of Treblinka now living in Israel, used fictional techniques to reconstruct the life and sudden death of the in- mates. The book's high point is the revolt, on Aug. 2, 1943, of the Jewish Sonderkommando, the laborers detailed to wrench gold teeth from corpses and bury the dead. With smuggled arms, the Jews killed 20 of their captors. Some 300 prisoners escaped from the camp, but all but 40 of them were eventually hunted down and executed...
Speculative Intelligence.Steiner's thesis, presented in language that Existentialist Author Simone de Beauvoir calls in her introduction "neither pathetic nor indignant but with a calculated coolness," is that there should have been a lot more revolts like that. "Certainly," Steiner writes, "there was a share of cowardice in the attitude of the Jewish masses who preferred to endure the vilest humiliation than to revolt." He seems to believe that something in the Jewish character produced the victims' resignation to their fate, says that "death does not have for the Jew the definitive character that it has in general...
Ideologically, the Buddhists oppose the National Liberation Front, with its predominantly Marxist beliefs. But the Buddhists have given aid to the NLF because it represents the people's armed revolt against foreigners. When peace finally comes, they intend to replace the NLF and become the pacifying agents...
...Abdul Karim Kassem's right-hand man in the 1958 army coup in which King Feisal was murdered, later that year fell from favor and was imprisoned by Kassem for pro-Nasser leanings, but was released in January 1963 and within a month grabbed power in a bloody revolt (Kassem and his chief aides were machine-gunned), after which Aref nimbly walked the tightrope of Middle East politics, surviving eight attempts on his own life; in the crash of his Russian-built helicopter during a sandstorm; near Al Qurnah, Iraq...