Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...almost impossible to start up a conversation about politics with anyone outside the university, and hard enough there. Yet you still find a few.... Best of all was the old lady who runs a little bookstore. The best thing in her politics and history section was about an Indian revolt in 1847. I asked if there was not something "more recent." She caught my meaning. "All the current stuff that isn't pure propaganda is illegal. If I had it here, the police would come and arrest me, maybe even kill me! The Committee for the Defense of the Revolution...
Available and Harmless. Critics could scarcely be blamed for underestimating Nasser's successor. Until Sadat became President, his chief accomplishment, other than his role in the 1952 officers' revolt that brought Nasser to power, was his survival. A former colonel, he edited the official newspaper Al Gumliouriya for a time and served as speaker of Nasser's rubber-stamp National Assembly. He lived quietly with his second wife Gehan, their three daughters and a son inevitably named Gamal (there are three older daughters, all married to army officers, by a first marriage that ended in divorce...
...death, Sadat formed a workable consensus government. He persuaded veteran Diplomat Mahmoud Fawzi, 72, a widely respected moderate, to become Premier. Ali Sabry, Moscow's chief protege, was named a Vice President, but not First Vice President; that job went to Hussein Shafei, another participant in the 1952 revolt. Such important departments as Health, Education, Social Services and Police were placed under Interior Minister Shaarawi Gomaa, who is known mainly as a tough, hard-working administrator. Lieut. General Mohammed Fawzi, no kin to the Premier, assured Sadat of the army's support...
...daring act was the work of Uruguay's Tupamaros, the most vicious and successful of Latin America's urban terrorists. They take their name from an Inca chieftain who was executed in Peru 200 years ago for leading a revolt against the Spaniards. For more than five months, the Tupamaros have been holding two other diplomatic hostages: U.S. Agronomist Claude Fly and Brazilian Consul Aloysio Mares Dias Gomide. Last year they murdered Daniel Mitrione, a U.S. AID official, after Uruguayan President Jorge Pacheco Areco refused to ransom him for 160 prisoners, including many Tupamaros...
...American public, suffering through assassinations, war, technocracy, revolt and recession, had eventually to suffer metal fatigue. "Systems die, instincts remain" observed Oliver Wendell Holmes. Unable and unwilling to rely on institutions or revolution, the U.S. has fallen back on pure feeling. The reaction is ominously reminiscent of the '30s and '40s, an epoch beyond the memory of the young?who nonetheless repeat its rhythms...