Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This movie captures the cold tenseness central to Smith's book, mirroring the rivetting story of Russian policeman Arkady Renko's struggle to solve three seemingly inexplicable murders. Renko, like George Smiley, is an underdog, and during his exhausting investigation he must confront the KGB, international entrepreneurs, a beautiful rebel, and traitors within his own ranks...
...roam freely through most of the countryside. To the north, the insurgents have streamed down from Chalatenango and the mountain redoubt of Guazapa to infiltrate the province of Cabañas and the fertile strip of northern Cuscatlán (see map). Though command of the villages seesaws between rebel and government forces, the guerrillas have held on to about 50 towns. For the first time in the four-year civil war, the forces of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.), an umbrella organization for five guerrilla groups, are consolidating their power in towns, not just isolated hamlets...
...F.M.L.N.'s skills on the battlefield have been overshadowed by the deterioration of El Salvador's army. Perpetually plagued by inept commanders and a "9t05" fighting mentality, the military improved over the summer but faltered once the rebel offensive began. The poor performance has prompted Defense Minister Carlos Eugenic Vides Casanova to shuffle his corps of colonels, but the troops suffer from battle fatigue as much as bad orders. Says a State Department analyst: "The army did not so much go back to their barracks as just run out of steam...
Other analysts have already said as much, so the findings did not come as a major surprise. What caught even Washington insiders off guard, however, were subsequent rumors that the White House is considering ways to end its two-year support for the rebel forces. In addition, U.S. policymakers are increasingly fretful that Washington would have to accommodate thousands of the guerrillas as exiles if a negotiated settlement of the region's conflict were ever achieved...
This slight fable, scarcely longer than a short story, was Orwell's favorite among his works; it led directly back to his first, heady days in Barcelona. The abused, overworked animals rebel against the rule of the exploiting farmer, Mr. Jones; but the workers' paradise is soon commandeered and betrayed by a pig who bears more than a fleeting resemblance to Joseph Stalin. His credo: "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." Animal Farm was rejected by more than a dozen publishers in England and the U.S. The clear anti-Soviet parody bothered...