Word: revoltingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Their festering disillusion erupted last week into outright revolt. The immediate cause was the ongoing congressional fight over a proposed bill, strongly supported by the President, to raise taxes by $98.9 billion over the next three years. The battle lines were drawn with special clarity on Wednesday, first at a series of no-nonsense meetings at the White House between Reagan and G.O.P. congressional leaders, and then at an evening strategy session attended by a disparate array of discontented conservatives...
...Poles who filed through the neat, birch-lined paths of Warsaw's Powazki Cemetery last week also had a message for their present rulers. Gathered at the base of a ten-foot-high monument to the Home Army, the non-Communist resistance group that organized the 1944 revolt, about 1,000 supporters of the suspended Solidarity union sang hymns, raised their hands in V-for-victory signs and called for the liberation of Lech Walesa, the union leader who remains under detention in southeast Poland...
...Cardenal Telleria, a civil engineer, the F.D.N. has been especially active since March. Linked to the F.D.N. are many Miskito Indians who resent the Sandinistas for having forced thousands of them out of their homes along the Honduran border and into internment camps. The Miskitos are now in open revolt, and running battles with the Nacaraguan armed forces have been going on for the past three weeks. The Honduran government has mostly turned a blind eye to the activities of the contras...
Black mineworkers in revolt...
...white Mineworkers' Union is fighting to preserve the job reservation system. Union officials have warned that if blacks are issued blasting certificates there will be a repeat of the 1922 "red revolt," when mineworker riots forced then Prime Minister Jan Smuts to declare martial law. At the annual meeting of the union's general council, Mineworkers' President Cor de Jager denounced the government commission's recommendation that skilled jobs be opened to all races. Said he: "For the sake of the money bosses and the blacks, the white workers are to be placed on an altar...