Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...George Jackson, and few events have been as misinterpreted as Attica. Partially, this stems from the complexity inherent in Jackson's own character and in the characters of the men at Attica. But much of the misunderstanding seems to come from the assumption that Jackson or the Attica revolt are novel combustions without historical precedent...
There were no beatings (for me at least) in this youth joint and the food wasn't too bad.... When told to do something I simply played the idiot, and spent my time reading. The absent-minded bookworm, I was in full revolt by the time seven months were...
...restore order in the prison to give much speculation to the emotional motivation of the prisoners. To be sure, Commissioner Oswald and the negotiating committee of outsiders attempted to discover the prisoners' physical grievances, yet the ultimate violent response of the state, and Governor Rockefeller's posture towards the revolt, the appearance of Bobby Seale, and even the entreaties of the negotiating committee revealed not so much a concern for the safety of the hostages--or even a respect for law and the imperative of maintaining some semblance of order--as a disrespect for the humanity of the inmates...
With the Los Angeles Free Press and the Phoenix, we seem to be in an area of staff revolts, and now everyone is trying very hard to label the recent change of management at WHRB another staff revolt. The tone of the recent Crimson article on WHRB was particularly misleading. When I spoke to Mr. Frazier on the phone, I said that my election did not signify "Radical takeover" or a "staff revolt", but that it simply involved a major disagreement about how the station should approach programming changes. Those of us at the station that favor some changes...
...bloody days in November 1956, as the country rose in revolt against Soviet rule, it seemed as if Budapest might be the Cardinal's own once again. Freedom fighters released him, and his stern face became as familiar an image of those days as the bullet-pocked walls. But then the Soviet tanks swept in, and Mindszenty fled to the safety of the U.S. embassy, where he remained, in effect a prisoner again. "Let him sit there and rot," Hungarian officials told the Americans. "He doesn't inconvenience us and he embarrasses...