Word: joined
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...them, and because House Democrats, whom Reagan likes to blame for past increases, will not cooperate unless Reagan asks them to do so. Reagan will have to "take the hard knocks," as Speaker Tip O'Neill put it. Or as one Senate G.O.P. strategist suggested, "We all have to join hands and jump off the cliff together...
...political days Marcos has claimed to have played a hero's role as leader of a Philippine guerrilla unit called Ang Mga Maharlika (Free Men) between 1942 and 1944. An Army report squirreled away in U.S. Government archives shows that Marcos had instead deserted his guerrilla unit, eventually to join up with an American force during the 1944 Philippines invasion. Within hours of the article's publication in New York City, the information was being announced in Manila with banner headlines in an opposition newspaper. Marcos called the revelations "crazy" and "laughable...
...fellow guerrillas call him Ka Victus--Ka being short for kasama, or comrade, in Tagalog. He is like many of the Filipinos who have joined the New People's Army in the past few years. An activist since his student days, Victus, 36, became disillusioned with the political system after losing an election for town councilor in 1980. Dressed in a yellow T shirt and sporting a mustache and small beard, he speaks earnestly about Philippine Communism. "In central Luzon, many Communists like me are not direct victims of Marcos," Victus acknowledges, "while in Mindanao, many join the party because...
...rebels and their political allies stress "simple living and hard struggle." Before a person can join the party, says Ka Victus, "we must change him entirely, re-educate him and indoctrinate him." Once inside the party, he continues, "if you want to court a girl, you must submit her name, and she will be investigated." On matters of internal discipline, the guerrillas can be ruthless. If a rebel discredits the insurgency, says Victus, "the N.P.A. will kill its own member...
Skirmishes between various military groups have been commonplace since the July coup. Uganda's new leader, Major General Tito Okello, had appealed to the rebels to lay down their guns and join his government. On Dec. 17 he met with Insurgent Leader Yoweri Museveni in neighboring Kenya and signed a peace accord that called for Museveni to become deputy chairman of a restructured military council. But the truce soon fell apart. In Uganda, generals may come and go, but the blood always seems to flow...