Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after another, the world's painful little problems become items on the U.N. docket. But while all eyes last week were on the most conspicuous of these, the U.N. General Assembly was in no mood to pursue other quarrels too far. Example: the two-year-old Cyprus revolt. This time the defendant was Britain and the complaining witness Greek rather than Arab, but the speeches were quite clearly some that had been left over from the Algerian debate of two weeks...
...absence of Shaath's testimony, however, no one in Beirut had any doubt as to who was behind Jedid's murder. In the two years since he fled to Beirut as a political refugee, Ghassan Jedid, fanatic antiCommunist, had spent his time laying the groundwork for a revolt against the Communist-infiltrated clique which Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj (TIME, Jan. 14) has led to power in Syria. Shortly after Jedid's arrival in Lebanon a Syrian court sentenced him to death in absentia for his alleged complicity in the assassination of a Serraj colleague. Early this month...
Nobody could deny that Indonesia's government needs some kind of rejuvenation. Large chunks of Sumatra. Indonesia's richest island, have been in open revolt. Deprived of much of the revenue from Sumatra's exports (oil, tin and rubber), the central government has been forced to issue an emergency decree lowering the legal ratio of gold to paper currency from 20% to 15%. For nearly three months the crumbling Cabinet of hapless Premier Ali Sastroamidjojo has clung to office largely on Sukarno's insistence...
...Spain, Italy) of the New York Times. In a series of three articles this week, Herb Matthews, now a Times editorial writer, told how he crossed the battle lines, described the rebels' guerrilla life, and firmly concluded that Strongman Fulgencio Batista "cannot possibly hope to suppress the Castro revolt...
Batista is well aware that the pint-sized revolt is hurting Cuba's two major crops: sugar and tourists. And if it keeps up long enough, the unrest might lead other 'army officers to ominous speculation about just who is the best man to lead the country...