Word: revoltingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FRANCE The Final Phase Over a nationwide radio-television broadcast, French Premier Guy Mollet last week made public his long-awaited "declaration of intentions" toward revolt-torn Algeria. It was sadly anticlimactic. Mollet's intentions are almost identical to his intentions of a year ago: Algeria could have free elections once the rebels had agreed to a ceasefire, but she could not have independence. "This declaration," rasped an angry Arab spokesman, "contains no. new element and offers no opportunity for an eventual peaceful settlement...
...first week of Indonesia's corruption-ridden and strife-torn eighth year of independence, there was much food for thought. The huge island of Sumatra (whose oil and rubber provide two-thirds of Indonesia's export revenue) was in open revolt against the government. Sumatrans complain that the national government, sitting in the Java capital of Djakarta, is too Java-centered.* Last week in North Sumatra, three of four government regiments were reportedly rallying to the support of Rebel Leader Colonel Maludin Simbolon, once the rising star of the Indonesian army, who is in hiding in the hills...
Premier Ali, at the head of a nondescript coalition government, stays tenuously in power only because of Sukarno's sufferance. The most powerful Moslem party in Ali's coalition called for his resignation, but the specter of open army revolt in Sumatra finally held a cabinet together: it might be disastrous to the young nation to let an army mutiny bring down a government...
From Berlin to Sofia, Russia's satellites were in the grip of a new crisis last week as the political upheaval of past months took its toll on their carefully coordinated economies. With industrial production in Hungary cut 75% by weeks of revolt and strikes, the Communist Government announced mass dismissals of industrial workers and government employees. East Germany's Red leaders arrived in Moscow to ask Russian aid for the faltering East German economy. In Warsaw the Polish government set up a 25-man "brain trust" to grapple with Poland's serious economic ills. All three...
...milked its unhappy neighbors. It overvalues its ruble to set the prices of raw materials, undervalues the currencies of the satellite countries when setting the prices of their products. The upshot of the entire relationship is that satellite nations have been kept so weak economically that Hungary's revolt and Poland's new freedom disrupted the entire system...