Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bangkok was calm yesterday as Thailand's new premier named a civilian-dominated cabinet to replace the military regime overthrown by a student revolt this week...
...cabinet ministers were named by Premier Sanya Thammasek--who was rector of the Thamasat University, where the revolt originated, until the Thai king named him to replace a military leadership Sunday--in consultation with student leaders...
King Bhumibel Adulyadej apparently persuaded the old regime's leaders to leave the country and warned them that they would turn Bangkok into a slaughterhouse if they brought additional troops to the capital to crush the revolt...
SENNETT AND COBB are far more ambitious. They recognize that the mechanisms of class may sometimes, fail to hold workers in--they treat the question of revolt and the "intensity of pent-up feeling" which revolt releases--but they do not consider the hard living families who give up on middle-class dreams and retreat from society rather than attack it. Yet their book goes far beyond other books based on interviews in that they attempt to create a comprehensive modern theory of class structure as it holds for the majority of people. Drawing together thoughts from philosophers and modern...
Soviet Deterrent. So long as the humorless, Moscow-lining Honecker regime stays in power, no one expects a repetition of the Polish riots or the dramatic 1953 workers' uprising in East Berlin. The presence of Soviet troops is one deterrent to revolt; another is the muscular visibility of East Germany's 90,000 soldiers and 46,000 border guards. The people, indeed, appear more resigned to their government now than at any previous time. As living standards rise, more and more East Germans will be able to claim, fairly enough, that their lives are not all that...