Word: insurrectionists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Insurrectionist Rabuka, who denied last week that he was motivated by personal ambition, quickly showed his ethnic sympathies. The 15 men he appointed to a Council of Ministers included a large majority of native Fijians and are expected to follow policies favoring Fijians. Mara is Rabuka's new Foreign Minister, and will drop Bavadra's nonaligned stance in favor of a pro-Western foreign policy. Rabuka is highly popular and faces little dissent from within the army, whose troops are 95% ethnic Fijian...
Shaf ick Jorge Handal, 51. Currently secretary-general of the Salvadoran Communist Party, Handal long resisted the insurrectionist ideas that led Carpio to break away from the party. But in April 1979, even the Moscow-lining Communists decided to join the fighting. They formed the Armed Forces of Liberation, one of the smallest of the guerrilla groups, which Handal commands...
...radio address, Khomeini warned leaders of the fundamentalist Islamic Republic Party that parliament was a likely target for bombing by insurrectionist forces. He then strove to assure Iranians that Iran is "the most stable country in the world." After naming Ayatullah Mohammed Reza Mahdavi Kani, a former interior minister, as Prime Minister to replace the assassinated Mohammed Javad Bahonar, the Imam intoned: "When a Prime Minister is assassinated, another is appointed the same day, and when a President is assassinated, another is elected right on schedule...
...into a thoroughly Stalinist mold. Indeed, the first word of anti-Soviet criticism from the P.C.F. did not come until the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia, and even that was muted. In the same year, the party dashed the faith of many leftist true believers by refusing to support the insurrectionist "May events," which eventually undermined De Gaulle's presidency. The Communists saw no opportunity to take control of the worker-student rebellion that shook France, and therefore labeled it counterrevolutionary...
...General, his aides and bodyguards are taken inconspicuously to a fashionable restaurant where they will await the President. The General dines with gusto on wine and choice venison, chats casually about the extermination of Portuguese Communists and arranges for the President's delivery of money and arms to his insurrectionist forces. Twice in 1975 the General's attempts to set up a right-wing dictatorship have aborted--but the President's adviser assures him that this time, with his leader's assistance, things will be different...