Word: revoltingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sense De Gaulle provoked the revolt himself, by his plan to change the constitution of the Fifth Republic so that future French Presidents would be elected by popular vote rather than by a privileged electorate of 80,000 parliamentarians and municipal and departmental officials. To bring about this change, De Gaulle decided to bypass Parliament and take the issue directly to the people in a referendum scheduled...
...backing an attempted military coup, was restored to office three years later at the behest of the liberal Cabinet, which wanted a strong leader to control the volatile army. Nasution repaid his backers by clapping them into jail at the first opportunity. In 1958, during another revolt, he firmly sided with Sukarno and got emergency powers, which he used to ban freedom of speech and the press, the right of assembly, and all opposition political activity...
Among Hungarian authors who helped stir the people to revolt in 1956, none was more famous than Novelist Tibor Dery. His Niki: The Story of a Dog, a powerful satire on Stalinism in Hungary, was published on the eve of the uprising and immediately became a bestseller. For his role in the revolution, the Janos Kadar puppet regime sentenced Dery to nine years in prison...
...Havana giving some details of the plot and the fate of the plotters. Miami's Cuban exiles confirmed the story; so did refugees newly arrived from Castro's fortress island and the chief of an inside-Cuba underground organization who was briefly in the U.S. A major revolt was indeed planned for late last month-and was discovered by Castro's agents...
...revolt may have several disturbing consequences. First, it has weakened and will further weaken Kassim's regime, perhaps causing its eventual collapse. Were the Baghdad government to fall, a Communist or Communist-controlled regime might easily come to power. If Mullah Mustafa succeeds in creating an autonomous Iraqi Kurdish state, the three million Kurds in Turkey and Iran will probably wish to join him. Such a movement towards a larger independent Kurdistan would seriously disrupt the internal affairs of our closest allies. Moreover, any emerging Kurdish state will make an already seething Middle East even more unstable...