Word: revoltingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, with Texas Rangers standing by to keep order, hundreds of Crystal City Mexicans gathered round the statue of Popeye. It was election day in Crystal City, and a revolt was under way. One by one, Mexicans crossed the square and lined up at city hall to vote, many for the first time in their lives. When the votes were counted, Mexican candidates had captured all five seats on the city council. And control of the council gave the Mexicans control of the town government, with authority to appoint the mayor, the marshal, and other officers...
...revolt in Crystal City was managed by a three-year-old Texas organization called Viva Kennedy during the presidential campaign, now named PASO (short for Political Association of Spanish-Speaking Organizations). Dedicated to the advancement of Mexican-Americans. PASO chose Crystal City as a test site for a get-out-the-Mexican-vote drive. At first the Anglos paid little attention to the PASO rallies, but as election day neared, they discovered that more than twice as many Mexicans as Anglos (1,139 to 532) had paid poll taxes to vote. In a flurry of appeasement, the city council voted...
When it finally erupted, the revolt was poorly organized and badly led. Four battalions of Britain's tough little Gurkha troops landed on Brunei, inside of a week sent the shattered remnants of the 3,000-man rebel army scuttling back into hiding in Brunei's steaming jungles...
...Brunei revolt at last gave the Philippines and Indonesia, for different reasons, an excuse to display their opposition to the scheme. Oblivious to Malaya's success against Red infiltration, the Philippines feared that leftists would ultimately take over the new nation, thus putting a Communist neighbor right on their doorstep. Dusting off an old claim to North Borneo, the Philippines maintained that in 1878 the Sultan of Sulu had only "leased," not sold, the territory to the British. London stiffly rejected the Filipino claim to the region...
There was no revolt worth recording. The Irish went in a terrible quietness. Weak and listless, the people were good only for a brief and feeble riot or two. Besides, the Act of Union of 1801 had made Ireland an integral part of the United Kingdom, with 100,000 troops to go with it. and a good many of them (well-fed Irishmen mostly) were still around to see that the Irish starved without breaking any laws...