Word: insurrectionism
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Fox has tried to reopen dialogue with the rebels and their enigmatic leader, Subcommander Marcos. Though Marcos has been only cautiously optimistic, Fox appears ready to take the steps necessary to earn the confidence of the rebels and turn their insurrection into a peaceful democratic movement. Fox portrayed himself during...
DIED. SIRIMAVO BANDARANAIKE, 84, the first woman elected to lead a nation; in Sri Lanka. Bandaranaike, who first became Sri Lankan Prime Minister 40 years ago, served two more separate terms during her turbulent and somewhat patchy political career, resigning from her last post in August. She may have been...
The Egyptian adventure deteriorated. The people of Cairo rose in general insurrection. Napoleon bombarded al-Azhar, the city's largest mosque, then sacked it and allowed his troops to run amok, killing men, women and children in the streets. The bloom was off the liberation. Napoleon sought glory northward, marching...
Some have dismissed the Declaration as merely eloquent propaganda--a sort of fancy mission statement for an insurrection. The only response is to observe the power of language to alter history. Jefferson explained, "I did not consider it as any part of my charge to invent new ideas altogether... It...
The Class of 1994 has let the doyenne of controversial publications, the infamous rag, lapse into oblivion. Topping the particularly inflamatory "educated pussy" was a challenge that no present students could meet. The only news Penninsula makes these days concerns how little news it makes. The old guard--Roger Landry...