Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democracy with opposition," complained Indonesia's President Sukarno recently, "is not right for us. It is suitable for Westerners, but not for Orientals." Whether Sukarno & Co. had been practicing Western-style political democracy in their chaos-and revolt-torn young republic for the past seven years was at least a debatable point. But whatever they had tried, it was definitely not working...
...long road to his guest appointment in classical art this spring. Naturalized as an American citizen in 1955, he holds something of a record of having been a legal citizen of four countries in succession, and at one time a citizen of none. He was Russian until the Bolshevik revolt, legally Latvian until 1941 when Latvia was annexed. Then he became German where his family had emigrated some time before as their familial holdings had been confiscated. But, says Professor von Blanckenhagen, scholarship is universal. "In spite of national difference, what good scholars have in common is much more important...
...goal of $800 has been set for the drive which will canvass only the freshman class by members of the Freedom Council. A movie on the Hungarian revolt will open the campaign in the second week of April...
Lawyer Fidel Castro's revolt against the regime of President Fulgencio Batista is the sort of affair that appeals more to young zealots than to common sense. Holed up in eastern Cuba's rugged Sierra Maestra range, Castro has sniped away for three months at overwhelming army forces, and has gradually bolstered his little band of men with young revolutionaries who slipped through the army cordon to join up. Last week the identity of three recent Castro recruits came to light, to pose a touchy problem for the U.S. State Department. They were Americans, teen-age sons...
...Sweden. The political slaughter had been designed to stifle Swedish resistance to the Union of Kalmar, which bound together Sweden, Denmark and Norway under one crown. But when the Dalecarlian peasants refused to believe young Vasa's tales of terror, he gave up hope of leading a revolt. Defeated, he strapped on his snowshoes and started the long, cold shuffle to Norway for refuge...