Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...article "Revolt & Revenge" [Sept. 5] is a good treatment of the subject, but pour-quoi do you find it necessaire to interrupt your English-speaking readers' trains of thought every now and again with un mot français? The practice strikes me as a bit stupide...
Lonardi had hardly taken the presidential oath, when riots broke out in working-class sections of Buenos Aires. In the industrial city of Rosario, a rumor that Perón had left the Paraguay to lead a counter-revolt brought on a bloody clash between gun-toting soldiers and stone-throwing Peronista workers. The new government decreed an 8 p.m. curfew, warned that demonstrators would be shot...
...Real Problem. Cloete's observations of the Mau Mau revolt in Kenya make writers like Robert Ruark (Something of Value) sound like Tarzan fans...
...that revolt, doomed from the start because no major army units joined in, the rebels struck directly at the seat of power: the pink Government House on Buenos Aires' Plaza de Mayo. In last week's much more formidable revolt, the rebel plan was to take over cities and military bases outside Buenos Aires before attempting to attack the capital...
Blanca. Said a rebel radio announcement from Puerto Belgrano: "This is not a revolt of two or four hours. We will carry on as long as is necessary. We ask the Argentine people to join us in our struggle for truth, morality and liberty...