Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Right-wingers in California recently announced support for Tim Leary over Ronald Reagan for governor. Leading libertarian journals have called for armed resistance to taxation and the draft. A New York leader of the 1969 libertarian revolt in YAF now condemns the U. S. as a monster worse than Soviet Russia or Nazi Germany. Every major libertarian organization recognizes at least some aspects of U. S. foreign policy as imperialist and many favor and end to U. S. attempts to quash wars of liberation in the Third World...
...three provinces were once an independent state, called the Kingdom of Pattani and ruled by a Malay Sultan. Starting in 1787, an expanding Siam demanded tribute from the sultan, but in 1808, the people revolted. The Thai army crushed the revolt and the Thai king divided the kingdom into provinces and appointed Thais as governors. In 1909, the British signed a treaty with the Siamese recognizing Thai sovereignty over the area. Thus, saved from the fate of British colonialism, the Malays in Pattani were handed over to a more enduring form of colonialism-Siamese expansionism. Since then, the area...
...campus revolt began in Berkeley . . . because the people who are striking and picketing are picking up their energy from the land...
Arab Front. The seeds of the current revolt lie deep in Eritrea's history. A field of battle between Arabs and Ethiopians since the 8th century, it became an Italian colony in 1885 and remained one until 1941. After World War II, Eritrea was turned over to Ethiopia under a United Nations mandate. In 1962 the last shreds of autonomy were stripped away when it was integrated into the Ethiopian empire...
...crudely aggressive that few could ignore their intent. By then, the U.S.S.R. had gained a grip on the country-much more so than is commonly realized. Soviet agents had infiltrated most departments of government. Tito had been goaded into an ill-advised farm collectivization program that caused near-revolt among the peasants. The Russians had talked the Yugoslavs into setting up joint stock companies that clearly favored the Soviets, but persistently withheld the help toward industrialization that Tito expected in return...