Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...verbal sparring in France heated up, so did the fighting in Cambodia. Vietnamese artillery units stepped up shelling of rebel positions along the Thai border. Viet Nam's objective: to make it harder for opposition troops to attack the Phnom Penh regime after Hanoi pulls out its forces in September...
Last week M-19 agreed to put down its guns. Saying he was "ready for the big leap," rebel leader Carlos Pizarro Leon-Gomez, 37, signed an agreement with the government to demobilize in exchange for a general amnesty and the right to form a political party that could participate in elections scheduled for next December...
...accord provided a heady moment for Barco, who is negotiating cease-fires with two other leftist rebel groups. A fourth group, the Cuba-trained National Liberation Army (ELN), remains recalcitrant. But Barco's government has accepted the resignation of a Cabinet minister, one of the ELN's conditions for talks...
After years of carnage, all is relatively quiet on three fronts in the cold war. The Afghan city of Jalalabad is still holding out against a rebel siege. Most Nicaraguan insurgents are sulking in their tents in Honduras. The various factions in Cambodia are spending at least as much time these days maneuvering against one another at international conferences as fighting in the jungle...
...netherworld that was nearer at hand -- trailer-park America -- were possibly a little closer to the truth. Like Presley, Dean and Brando, he was a figure partially shaped by a popular culture that in the '50s was learning to cater almost exclusively to kids and their need for rebel figures. But there was also an element of discomfiting truth in the message he sent. The thing about the young Jerry Lee was that he was all fecklessness and recklessness, without a shrewd thought in his head -- and without a Colonel Parker to cover up his skid marks. There...