Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Colonial Revolt. The truth is that in the satellites the Russian rulers find themselves bedeviled by the same problem of restive colonial peoples that plagues the rest of the postwar world. Because Russia is less industrialized than several of the satellites, the Russians have reversed the classic pattern of colonialism by exploiting the satellites' skilled labor force instead of their raw materials, but it is exploitation nonetheless. Any gains the satellites have made have not been conferred on them by more "moderate" Russian leaders, but won by themselves...
...outside Havana. Batista warily shuffled guards at all military installations, held Havana cops on the alert in their barracks. Rumors were flying that the bearded young rebel, Fidel Castro, holed up in the Sierra Maestra, planned to celebrate Batista's 24th anniversary with an uprising. Next morning the revolt came, in the sugar port of Cienfuegos (pop. 99.000), Cuba's seventh city...
...served notice that Malaya will not join SEATO. "For the protection of this country," said he last week, "I consider it sufficient that we enter into defense agreements with Britain." But for all his lack of enthusiasm for military pacts, Abdul Rahman is determined to clean up the Communist revolt that has plagued Malaya for the last nine years, at a cost to Britain and Malaya of $1,680,000,000 and nearly 4,500 lives. "My aim," says Abdul Rahman, "is to bring an end to the Communist terrorists' war by August 31, 1958. We may issue...
...French government trumpeted a victory, and cited it as evidence for Minister Resident Robert Lacoste's chronic boast that the Algiers revolt is in "its last quarter of an hour." But a more realistic French colonel in Algiers said ruefully. "Every time we get one rebel, we know he is immediately replaced by another...
...June 1956. at a time when the rest of the world was yet only dimly aware of the courageous activities of dissident writers of Budapest's Petofi Club, Kantor gave them guarded support in the Communist Berliner Zeitun'g. After the Petofi protest became the Hungarian revolt, all Eastern Europe was buried under the snowdrifts of renewed cultural repression. Bleakly, Kantor declined to sign a petition ordered by Party Boss Walter Ulbricht condemning the role of the Petofi Club in touching off the Hungarian revolt. The trial last March of his fellow professor. Wolfgang Harich, and the arrest...