Word: revoltingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...correspondent noted that although the U.S. had great provocation from Castro, the Eisenhower administration sank to Cuban leader's level in the immaturity of its response to the revolution. He pointed out, however, that had the Kennedy administration postponed action until the April, internal revolt would have been feasible...
Some Gains. What has held Red China together so far is the Communist Party kanpus, the army, the single-minded but aging leadership. Should these rivets begin to loosen, the whole structure might well come apart. Is there any hope, then, of imminent disintegration or revolt...
...majors are reported to have taken an oath not to accept Algerian independence. As a further symptom of army disease, 1,300 officers have handed in their resignations. Though the government found it almost impossible to gather evidence against officers who took part in the April 1961 revolt, eleven of its top generals were condemned to death in absentia or to prison terms. The chief of staff, General Paul Ely, resigned last year in open disagreement with De Gaulle, and his successor, General Jean Olié, resigned last month, pleading ill health. For his new chief, De Gaulle...
...Europe's greatest-had a history rich with the influence of Hegel, Fichte, Kant, Goethe and Leibnitz. The Nazis killed all that; the Russians buried it. The East Berlin plant survives as Humboldt University, a dreary institution with about 10,000 students. Humboldt nearly exploded during the Hungarian revolt in 1956; scores of its students and professors have vanished into East German jails, and many have been executed. Ordered to sign up for the East German army or be expelled, Humboldt's students recently wrote to Free University students: "Help us! We are sons and daughters...
...Oxford archaeologist who could outride the fiercest Bedouin warrior, a galloping ghost who had blown up 79 bridges along the Turkish-held Hejaz Railway (and mourned he had not made it 80), an Englishman hailed by the Arabs as El Aurens, who in 2½ years had led the revolt in the desert from the Red Sea port of Jidda to the gates of Damascus. Then, with his chosen prophet, Emir Feisal, about to be crowned king of Syria, Lawrence disappeared as suddenly as he came, in what seemed a superb gesture of modesty and abdication...