Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...HARD RAIN was falling in Lisbon last Wednesday night when the signal came for the drama to begin. It was a folk song, called "Grandola," broadcast over one of the local radio stations at half past midnight. By 6 a.m., Lisbon was completely surrounded by rebel troops; 12 hours later, Portuguese dictator Marcello Caetano surrendered, and the oldest fascist government in Europe was toppled...
...liberation fighters in Guinea-Bissau have been much more successful than the rebel forces in either Angola or Mozambique. And unlike Angola and Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau is not of strategic importance to the rest of white-controlled Africa, nor of much economic importance to Portugal...
...Genina" who spoke on one taped S.L.A. communiqué, she majored in education at Indiana University, where she became a close friend of Emily and William Harris. In 1970, Atwood was a student teacher in Indianapolis, and she is remembered as a rebel who opposed rules of conduct for students. After she parted from her husband in Berkeley last June, she moved in with the Harrises and disappeared with them in January...
...Seminex," the new, more liberal seminary in exile (TIME, March 4). That situation is still confused. Last week the Rev. Martin H. Scharlemann, acting president of Concordia, resigned, suffering from nervous exhaustion. In May, Missouri Synod congregations will have to decide whether to choose new graduates from the rebel Seminex as pastors-though they may face expulsion if they do. Any notable defiance will be a test of Preus's power in the embattled denomination...
...workers in the textile mills of Lawrence struck in protest against a cut in hourly pay imposed by the wool trust. They had ample reason to rebel. Child labor was usual, disease was rampant, and both wages and working conditions were deteriorating. Soon after the strike began, Massachusetts sent in militia to harass the workers and to break the Industrial Workers of the World strike. Large numbers of these troops were Harvard students whom President Lowell released from finals in order to protect the property of his fellow textile magnates. As an aristocratic Boston observer noted at the time. "They...