Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...officer said yesterday that North Vietnamese gunners in Laos may be hidden in old emplacements used by rebel troops in the 77-day seige of Khe Sanh in 1968. Built into the side of a mountain near the border, the emplacements cannot be damaged by air strikes...
After becoming President on a law-and-order platform, Araña tried briefly to moderate his strongman image. But terrorist kidnapings and murders continued-mostly by the ultraleft F.A.R. (Rebel Armed Forces). Araña, a former counterinsurgency chief who is credited with wiping out 3,000 people during an antiguerrilla campaign in northeastern Guatemala between 1966 and 1968, heard mounting calls for a crackdown. Finally, after four policemen had been gunned down by guerrillas in two days, Araña imposed the state of siege and a 9 p.m.-to-5 a.m. curfew. Soon the blood began...
Moon provided a legend of the theatrical kind that Gauguin himself invited. Here was an archetypal rebel against bourgeois civilization, who quit a prosperous job on the Paris Stock Exchange to find his true artistic self in Tahiti among brown innocents, baptized anew in coconut milk and liberated from his own and Europe's stale past by primitive ritual...
...Larry Buchanan. Mostly Buchanan's directed bike pictures-thinks called Hell-Raiders -and crime stories-like A Bullet for Pretty Boy. But after a long lunch, he will take you back to his office-cutting room and ask your opinion of his dream project, a film tentatively called The Rebel Jesus...
BANGKOK (DNSI)-The insurgency situation in southern Thailand seems to be increasing despite the Thai government's efforts to crush the guerrillas with a massive military effort. The rebel organization, named the National Liberation Front of the Pattani Republic, is composed of communists as well as Muslim separatists who want to be separated from Thailand...