Word: revolted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last year a handful of Haitian exiles made their way into the country and tried to rally the peasants in revolt. Nothing came of it. "Doc will stay in power,'' said a Haitian army officer in a Port-au-Prince bar. "The people know that they will be killed instantly if they get out of line." He slammed his fist on the table. "Like that," he glowered, "we will crush anyone who causes the slightest bit of trouble." And like that, Papa Doc is slowly crushing the life out of his forlorn little country...
...shops and streets the possible candidates with detached excitement. The very lack of news was impossible to ignore, for unless some resolution was found to the month-long confrontation between King Constantine and ex-Premier George Papandreou, the field lay open to military coup from the right or armed revolt from the left. Young King Constantine appeared more determined than ever to refuse Papandreou's demand for a recall to office or general elections. In an effort to find a replacement for the outvoted regime of George Athanassiadis-Novas, he called 14 politicians from all political parties...
...namaste. His home must be decorated in the best Western decor, but carry at least one careful Indian touch-perhaps a Mogul miniature or a divan with a brightly colored, hand-loomed bolster from the Punjab. Clubs are one British social heritage that upper-class Indians will not revolt against, perhaps because they were excluded in the days of the British raj. Today high-caste Indians are just as cutting to members of lesser castes as the Englishman was to "wogs." Indian intellectual life has fared a bit better. Today, 45 million children are in school, v. 14 million...
Economy Damage. For all this appearance of detachment, the little republic was beginning to feel a deeper deterioration of the already troubled economy. The revolt closed major banks in Santo Domingo's rebel zone, thus hobbling the flow of credit throughout the country. A peso shortage cut down business outlays and salaries, and government tax collections dropped from $15 million to $5 million a month. To help out, the U.S. is putting cash in the hands of laborers through $6,416,000 in emergency grants for road and irrigation projects. That is at best a stopgap move. The country...
...countered with pressure. Imbert has received no U.S. cash to pay the $10 million July salaries of his government, and now the OAS warned that there would be no further U.S. money for his unrecognized regime. At week's end-for the first time since the revolt-rebel and loyalist representatives met at an OAS conference table for preliminary settlement talks...