Word: revolting
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...destroying much of the Iraqi military and telling prospective rebels that we would help them, the United States caused a revolt. By leaving just enough of Iraq's military intact and abandoning the rebels, the United States caused the revolt to fail. Add these deaths to the continually escalating body count from the Gulf...
...people to overthrow their repressive leadership, we just sit back and watch them get slaughtered." Other commentators came up with a different analogy: the Red Army halting outside Warsaw in 1944 and doing nothing to stop a Nazi massacre of the Jewish ghetto residents who had risen in revolt...
...communist regime was in a position to fend off the wave of popular revolt that has washed over Europe in the past two years, the Party of Labor of Albania seemed the best bet. Since coming to power in 1944, Albania's communists have gone to great lengths to avoid all compromising entanglements with the outside world. Enver Hoxha, socialist Albania's founder, rejected all contact with the West and broke ranks with communist allies in Yugoslavia, the Soviet Union and China when they deviated from strict orthodoxy...
Margaret Thatcher never minced words during her 11 1/2 years as British Prime Minister, and will not do so now. But she exaggerates the changes her country's Conservative government has set in train since an intraparty revolt four months ago replaced her with her Chancellor of the Exchequer, John Major...
...single opposition figure has yet surfaced around whom the competing factions can easily rally. Among the secularists, the most popular is General Hassan Naqib, 62, a former army deputy chief of staff who broke with Saddam in 1978 and three years later led a failed revolt of Kurds and Muslims in northern Iraq. Like other exiles who have spent many years outside Iraq, however, he may not have a large enough following at home to produce a stable regime...