Word: revoltingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dangerous Division. The hullabaloo reflected far more than a revolt over esthetics or the Prime Minister's no tions of heraldry. As Pearson himself was only too well aware, it reflected a deep and dangerous division between Canada's English-speaking majority and its French-speaking minority centered in the province of Quebec. To English Canadians, the Union Jack is a cherished symbol of Canada's strong allegiance to the mother country. But to French Canadians-with their own lan guage, Roman Catholic religion and cultural identity-the Union Jack is an ugly reminder of Quebec...
...border tribesmen known as the Red Wolves of Radfan. Primed with arms and ammunition from Egyptian caches in Yemen, they have been harassing the key trade route between Dhala and Aden. Half the federation's 4,000-man, British-officered army was assigned to end the "state of revolt" last January. By March, frustrated by rebel strikes from Yemen as well, the British bombed the Yemeni fortress of Harib after warning civilians to clear out, earning a sharp rebuke from the U.N. Security Council...
...polished floors, the measured speech now being given by a liberal Northern Republican seemed unreal. More real were the memory of demonstrations, picket lines, sweat, nausea too often denied, six dead Negro children, Birmingham, freedom songs; despair when quiet and sophisticated friends were caught up in the storm of revolt and swept into the movement on waves of emotion and hate; the endless search for identity, truth, meaning, love and hate shared with Negroes the summer of 1963. And the history of another and originally pacifist group of Anabaptists, seemed applicable to Negroes...
...Rumanian Revolt. But if the Chinese were non grata in Moscow, there was at least one Eastern European Communist capital where Peking was still welcome. In Bucharest, Rumanian Party Boss Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, 62, went out of his way to include Mao Tse-tung in his May Day message of greeting. In the Red world, it was a significant gesture, and every Communist from Auckland to Zanzibar took note of it. For Dej is playing a double game in the Sino-Soviet conflict, one that could lead to plenty of trouble-or perhaps to a certain amount of freedom...
...statement said that the "'Vietcong' are South Vietnamese peasants in revolt against a dictatorial government" and that the "present U.S. position is untenable. The administration is considering extending the war to North Vietnam. This is morally unjustifiable and a threat to world peace. We must withdraw...