Word: revoltingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...month later Duarte incautiously gave vocal support to a coup by young, reform-minded Salvadoran army officers. When the revolt was crushed, Duarte was hauled from his sanctuary in a Venezuelan diplomatic residence, held incommunicado and brutally beaten. His cheekbones still bear indentations from that torture. Telegrams from Pope Paul VI, Richard Nixon and Notre Dame President Theodore Hesburgh brought about his release; Duarte spent the next seven years in exile in Venezuela...
...avoid a repeat of the uprising that occurred 19 years ago last week, which was also sparked in part by opposition to IMF measures. In that incident, President Lyndon Johnson sent in 27,000 U.S. troops to avert "another Cuba." Ironically, Jorge Blanco and his party led that revolt...
...infamous Borgia Pope, was "as close to the prince of darkness as human beings are likely to come." What then of Caligula? Or Stalin? Or Hitler? But she correctly upbraids the Pontiffs for squandering the papacy's moral standing in Christendom. Whether they "provoked" the Protestant revolt, as Tuchman says, or only abetted it, they lost the respect of bishops and princes who otherwise might not have accommodated the forces of nationalism and economic advantage that fueled the Reformation...
...Secretary, Presidential Advisers Baker and Michael Deaver lobbied Reagan for promotions: Baker wanted to take over as National Security Adviser, Deaver to replace Baker as chief of staff. Reagan genially agreed, despite Baker's lack of foreign policy expertise and Deaver's administrative diffidence. A last-minute revolt by Administration right-wingers stopped the Baker appointment-and then only because he volunteered to withdraw, not because Reagan made a tough decision...
This book is the second installment of Frank's answer, which is scheduled to run to five volumes; the first, Dostoevsky: The Seeds of Revolt, 1821-1849, was published...