Word: revoltingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Behind Chiang's expectant, fighting mood is the belief that Red China is seething with revolt and is, in fact, "on the verge of collapse." He is certain that morale on the mainland is at its lowest ebb, cites information relayed by a recently defected Communist MIG pilot and letters received on Formosa from peasants in the coastal province of Fukien who pleaded for liberation. Moreover, argues Chiang, the Sino-Soviet split has be come such a bitter personal rivalry between Mao Tse-tung and Khrushchev that the Soviet leader probably would not run the risk of touching...
...power over the use of force by the Nationalists. But in Washington there was scant support for an invasion. Although State Department experts agreed that severe economic troubles have greatly weakened Mao's regime, most were skeptical that any commando raids by Chiang would touch off a general revolt. The U.S. also could not believe that Khrushchev would sit back and watch the Chinese Communists fall, whatever his disagreements with his rival in Peking. Still, the question of support for the Nationalists was not easily dismissed...
Engineered largely by the same officers who led the September revolt, last week's uprising had advance warning. Ever since President Nazem El-Koudsi was elected in December, there had been widespread grumbling at his regime's conservative measures: watering down the land-reform system to favor landowners, repealing nationalization laws passed when Nasser's socialists were in charge. Two months ago demonstrations against the government broke out among students and workers. Early last week a delegation of young officers called on President Koudsi at El Mohjerin palace to present their demands for sweeping reforms. They called...
...military road between Western China and Tibet that cut 112 miles across Ladakh. So casually did India patrol the area that the road was not discovered until 1958-though it had been shown on available Chinese maps for more than a year. But only after squashing the Tibetan revolt in 1959 did the Chinese go out of their way to provoke India...
...with such power. Bunuel indulges in no sentimentality about "the masses." Rabble is rabble to him; the mob is a beast with many heads that destroys both good and evil, that overwhelms humanity with animality. Nevertheless, Bunuel seems to believe that revolution is necessary in Spain, that only a revolt of the masses can dissolve its calcified social structure. But after the revolution, what? Viridiana witlessly abandons what is good in her religion along with what is bad, and the final scene suggests that she will become the mistress of Jorge, that Spain will sink into mere materialism. The film...