Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...night of Feb. 15, 1898, the U.S. battleship Maine mysteriously exploded and sank in Havana Harbor, where it had gone to protect American lives during the Cuban revolt against Spanish rule. Out of 354 men aboard the Maine, 260 died. Though the Spanish denied any responsibility, jingoistic U.S. newspapers charged that a Spanish mine had caused the explosion. "Destruction of the Maine was the work of an enemy," charged William Randolph Hearst's newly founded New York Journal as it offered a $50,000 reward for conviction of whoever had done the deed. Scarcely two months later...
...Miltons' analysis is not unique, nor is their discussion of it particularly revealing. But their chronology of the spread of the revolt against established authority, and their descriptions of the results of the dispute in their university show the extent to which the whole nation was engulfed in the fight against "elitist tendencies" within the Communist Party. Even the Miltons' children, then in junior high and high school, were caught up in the whirlwind. The Red Guard broke quickly into smaller factions, and every student, it seems, joined one or the other, and spent his time calling the others either...
...Tanaka on its board of directors. Though accused repeatedly of corruption, Tanaka until last week always managed to avoid legal action. But in November 1974, an exposé of his kinken record in a Japanese magazine, describing dummy corporations, secret bank accounts and false tax statements, triggered a party revolt that forced him from office...
...last week, Canada agreed that Taiwan could keep its flag and its anthem as long as it dropped the name Republic of China and instead called itself simply Taiwan. That was still not acceptable to the Taiwanese, but the arrangement mollified U.S. representatives to the I.O.C., who faced a revolt among their athletes if they went ahead with their threat of a U.S. boycott of the Olympics...
...companies large and small. Some of the acquisitions -most notably the S.H. Kress chain, bought for $65 million in 1963, and a bevy of foreign textile and clothing makers-turned out to be clunkers. By early 1973 the situation had become so serious that Frank. Jarman staged a palace revolt...