Word: revoltingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rebel. His favorite form of truancy as a boy was listening to his half-Brazilian mother play the piano and sing Brahms. Papa was a senator of the Baltic seaport town of Lübeck and a prosperous grain merchant: the perfect bourgeois figure for a young artist to revolt against...
Sadat was admitted in 1936 to the Royal Military Academy, where he first learned the value of bold, decisive action along with the uses of power and force. After graduating in 1938, he joined a group of young officers, including Gamal Abdel Nasser, who plotted an armed revolt against the British presence. At that time, Sadat was the hothead talking of blowing up British installations; the cooler Nasser dissuaded...
...local government. Have you ever heard of a central government that doesn't interfere in local affairs?" Asked how native-born Taiwanese would respond to any opening of negotiations between Taipei and Peking, Kang Ning-hsiang, a popular Taiwanese legislator, replied: "We'd fight, we'd revolt. People in Taiwan aren't interested in having the kind of life they lead on the mainland...
...attempt on the American General Kroesin in West Germany has only aggravated the situation. Accusations have even been made that anti-nuclear protests throughout Europe and especially in Holland are secretly Soviet-supported and financed. America has, rightly or wrongly, singled out Holland as the leader of this apparent 'revolt', but she is a leader without support. Important loans and industrial contracts have been held up and the Dutch are powerless to respond. As with the Chinese fiasco, the Dutch, because of diplomatic shortsightedness, have been placed in a damaging predicament now beyond their control...
...like the Mujahedin, not because they supported the Shah," says Ali Shahin Fatimi, editor of an Iranian newsletter in Paris. Other Iranian intellectuals in exile criticize Banisadr's arrogance and political naivete. Says one: "If he could not do anything as President, and if he cannot organize a revolt from within Tehran itself, what can Banisadr possibly do from Paris?" It is a question that the mullahs were also asking themselves last week in Tehran. -By William Drozdiak...