Word: revoltingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...floor apartment, their service revolvers leveled at ex-General Raoul Salan. In the heart of the city where his men boasted of being "as safe as fish in the sea," almost one year to the day since his arrival in Algiers to take part in the abortive Generals' Revolt, the head of the murderous Secret Army Organization had been captured at last. Said one jubilant gendarme: "He fell into the trap like a beginner...
Inspiration for the program came from a similar plan that the British used successfully to put down a Communist guerilla revolt in Malaya. But the Vietnamese situation is fundamentally different from the Malayan. In Malaya the guerillas were Chinese and therefore could not effectively appeal for support on nationalist grounds. Moreover, the British offered immediate compensation to evicted peasants. As Malaya is a peninsula, the war was in effect quarantined from foreign assistance. And the British still had to spend ten difficult years crushing the revolt...
...toward Aleppo. Since it was clear that no help was coming from Cairo, the rebels hastily submitted, and, even before the armored column reached Aleppo's outskirts, the garrison humbly informed Damascus it was obeying orders and confining itself to barracks. Relatively bloodless though it was, the Aleppo revolt nevertheless made history of a sort-it was Syria's second in a week, its eighth in 13 years and, finally, the only military revolt in Syria that has ever failed...
Revolution for its own sake is not supported by Yugoslavia, he continued, but stalled social development in colonies may necessitate revolt...
...papers are guilty elsewhere of sensationalism and negligence. Those who wrote from Buenos Aires a month ago, and those who read the dispatches, seemed astonished at the huge number of Peronists returned in Argentina's latest elections--but few Argentines were. Ecuador reaches the front pages in times of revolt, but not when it revises its banking structure. And subscribers rarely even hear about the rest of that large continent, for a Caribbean island occupies the exclusive attention of most newspaper staffs: exhaustive stories on Cuba continue to occupy the attention of valuable men, especially liberals, whose energy and indignation...