Word: revoltingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...taking no chances on a revolt, Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht now has 30,000 highly trained riot police, more than 80,000 People's Police, and a People's Army of 110,000 equipped with tanks and artillery. Backing up these regulars are the 300,000 members of factory "fighting groups"-hard-core Communists equipped with infantry weapons and trained specifically to aid regular forces in case of an uprising. Should all these home-grown forces fail or defect, as was the case in Hungary, there remains the formidable Russian army in East Germany...
There is no lack of money. Starting with $800.000 stolen from a government safe during the April revolt, the S.A.O. also extracts funds from European sympathiz ers-the standard levy is 1% of salaries or wages. Paris has sent in police officials specially chosen for their reliability and toughness, but they have achieved little against the S.A.O. Said one: "We get a feeling we are working in a vacuum. Our orders are misinterpreted at lower echelons, and security leaks are flagrant...
...rains due this month, the army desperately seeks a military decision but can rarely come to grips with the elusive rebels. Farther north, below the bulge of Africa, lies a 2,800-sq.-mi. sliver of Portuguese territory called Cabinda. Here the authorities recently tried to snuff out revolt by arresting all the local chiefs and every Cabindese who could read or write. Villages were put to the torch, and most of the colony's 60,000 natives fled across the border into former French and Belgian Congo. But even making a desert of Cabinda was not enough...
Died. Zoltan Tildy, 72, former Calvinist clergyman and last freely elected president of Hungary (1946-48) who, after years under Red house arrest, served briefly as Minister of State during the 1956 Hungarian revolt and for that went to prison until 1959; in Hungary...
...Diem learned any lessons from his close escape? The fear of U.S. officials on the spot was that the soldiers might revolt again?this time with tougher ambitions. "The army has lost its virginity,'' suggested an old political hand. "Next time it will be easier...