Word: revoltingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crushing of the revolt in South Viet Nam: Tough, zealously anti-Communist President Diem seems to have won out again. But he has not solved the problem of Communist terrorism, he has ruled with rigged elections, a muzzled press and political re-education camps, and his prospering brothers and in-laws are his key advisers. The conditions that brought on the revolt still remain. See FOREIGN NEWS, Revolt at Dawn...
...capable of waging a war of which an important element in the country disapproves?" are completely free of familiar cant, and remarkable in that respect at least. He speculates that two years ago de Gaulle could have acceded to the demands of the F.L.N. for compromise "without provoking a revolt by the French soldiers and citizens of Algeria," so strong was his prestige at that time. He is only vaguely optimistic about later prospects, saying in his Postscript (written in 1959) that it is possible that de Gaulle "can impose an Algerian policy of peace upon the French army...
...them in the Senate, spare, able Clifford P. Case, 56, has shown himself one of the most independent of Republican liberals. The scholarly son of a Dutch Reformed minister, Case is no gladhander, tends to neglect his political fences, and has repeatedly driven conservative New Jersey Republicans into open revolt by his egghead policies. Case's re-election reinforces his shaky position as his state's top Republican leader...
Generally speaking, Aron said, "Neither the right wing nor the army will revolt against de Gaulle unless there is occasion for it." Aron preferred not to predict what might happen under such circumstances, except to say that "If de Gaulle is beaten, we will enter into a revolutionary situation, and a very dangerous...
...expedition, led by G. Ernest Wright, Parkman Professor of Divinity, uncovered the ruins of the temple which Abimelech supposedly destroyed in his seige of Shechem. The Biblical story of the revolt is narrated in the Book of Judges...