Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...participant in the 1971 rebellion at New York's Attica State Prison said last night that the prisoners who were indicted after the revolt would not be defeated in the courtroom...
...State of New York has spend $3 million in tax money to indict sixty participants in the Attica revolt on 1300 separate counts. Some of those indicted are in danger of receiving the penality...
...authority in the region, voiced his whole-hearted support for the move. Meanwhile, Tibet unsuccessfully appealed for intercession by the United Nations. In 1951, the regime paid lip service to its earlier pledges to Tibet's right to regional autonomy. But between 1952 and 1958, the Chinese fought a revolt in East Tibet, destroying over a thousand monasteries and killing or imprisoning countless monks and lamas; the Chinese undertook a full-scale campaign to eliminate once and for all the region's religion and customs. During the bloody upsurge the Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual and temporal ruler, fled...
...late '50s, Fidel Castro led a guerrilla revolt against the military dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. At first, his profession of democratic principles won him considerable support among the Cuban middle class and in the United States (though one American ambassador asked Batista if he wanted a CIA or FBI agent sent to assassinate him), even though the core of his army came from the peasantry. But when Castro began to talk about nationalizing industry and collectivizing agriculture, and failed to hold the elections he'd promised, the United States and many Cuban liberals became alarmed. First the United States stopped...
...hands--while the struggle of conscience and denial goes on beneath his bald pate. Then the crown covers that spot and all sign of the saint is gone. Fear itself takes over the command, but with no less skill or strength than made Macbeth a hero in suppressing the revolt against Duncan. Especially fine is the scene where the king persuades and instructs the two murderers concerning the death of Banquo and his son whose end is needed, he explains, "Masking the business from the common eye for sundry weighty reasons." The two identically costumed soldiers are reminiscent of Rosencranz...