Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ever since the U.S. bombing halt went into effect on Aug. 15, the most ominous question about Cambodia's future has been: When would the Hanoi-backed Khmer insurgents make their big move? Despite several weeks of concentrated assaults by American B-52s, the rebel forces had been able to move to within ten miles of the capital of Phnom-Penh prior to the deadline. Those sweeping advances suggested that the troops of Cambodian President Lon Nol, once they were denied the support of U.S. warplanes, would be hard-pressed to stave off a major enemy attack...
Though Lon Nol threw several thousand fresh reserves into the battle, the rebels continued to move toward the city's limits. One government soldier, evacuated to a hospital in Phnom-Penh, moaned: "They just keep coming and coming." At a large textile factory just outside the town-which had been built for Cambodia by China-Lon Nol's troops fled under fire while the workers and managers remained behind, trying unsuccessfully to hold back the insurgent attacks. Inside the city itself, house-to-house fighting erupted around the central marketplace when rebel infiltrators suddenly surfaced. Using armored scout...
...genetics), but he has long had an "obsessional" concern with sexual freedom. He traces it to a crisis of guilt over masturbation that he suffered at 17. "It led me to wonder what the message of my upbringing was all about," he says. "That is why I became a rebel against arbitrary authority." That rebellion has had mixed success. Cole recommended making the Pill available to eleven-year-olds but this never really caught fire. But he was a pioneer in the fight that led to the liberalization of abortion law in Britain...
...merely the seasoned pro who has won five Wimbledon singles titles and two at Forest Hills. She is not only the grit player who serves, rushes and smashes as if life hung on every point. She is also the arm and brain of women's ten nis, the rebel who broke some of the sport's prissy traditions and made the revolution work. Like it or not, King personifies the professional female athlete that Riggs loves to taunt...
Needed Struggle. She knew that she still had a few things to learn, and that was perhaps one reason why she spurned the rebel pro circuit led by Billie Jean King and Margaret Court...