Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...civilians, 102 black civilians, 45 Rhodesian and South African military men, and 311 guerrillas-20 of them killed last week. Three Rhodesian air force planes have been lost in the past two months. The government claims that all three losses were due to accidents, but rumors persist that a rebel missile accounted for one of the planes (a Canberra light bomber) and that rifle fire brought down the other two. The guerrillas get funds from the Organization of African Unity and from China and Russia, which also supply arms...
...Angela Atwood, 25, a former student teacher in Indianapolis, where she is remembered as a rebel who opposed codes of conduct for students...
...with native guerrillas, while the right, supported by many whites in Angola and Mozambique, wants the fight against the guer rillas to go on unabated. In the book that sparked the coup, Portugal and the Future, Spinola himself talked vaguely about a federation of the territories. For their part, rebel groups in all three places have vowed to continue the battle...
...companies of the paramilitary National Republican Guard held out, together with the detested D.G.S. (Direcção Geral de Segurança) secret police, the army was clearly superior. "We have all the tanks, and we have the military experience we learned in Africa," said one rebel officer with casual contempt. "The police and the National Republican Guard have only a few obsolete armored vehicles...
Daddy died when Merle was nine, ending the ball games and the fishing trips and turning the boy into an aimless rebel...