Word: insurrectionism
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Fierce firefights have raged across the country since last Wednesday's announcement that a "peace deal" will be signed on Monday, as Albanian nationalist guerrillas press to expand their range of operations despite NATO?s hopes of persuading them to disarm once a new political order has been negotiated. And...
But Californians never have been good at organized violence. The bloodiest battle ever to take place on California’s soil was the Dec. 6, 1846 Battle of San Pasqual during the Mexican-American War. Only a few months after the Americans took southern California without firing a shot...
The Yugoslav federal government had been uneasy about sending Milosevic for trial in a court considered by President Vojislav Kostunica to be biased against Serbs. Authorities appeared set to delay the process by allowing a Federal appeals court - whose judges had been Milosevic appointees, and had voted to annul last...
Ellroy places these three at the secret center of five years of convulsive events. Littell is a lawyer who represents both Howard Hughes and the Mob bosses who own the Las Vegas casinos Hughes wants to buy. A former Jesuit seminarian and FBI agent, Littell also gets regular phone calls...
Styron, a self-proclaimed “white man from Tidewater Virginia” was widely criticized in the 1960s for The Confessions, which he wrote from the point of view of Nat Turner, a black slave who led a insurrection during the height of American slavery. Because the class...