Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...death for the repression of drug traffickers who take the leaves and make cocaine." This puts the new President in a delicate position: some military men have quietly warned they will resist any attempt to crush the profitable business. Still, Siles Zuazo believes the army will not rebel, at least for now. Said he: "They want to cooperate...
...principal antagonist of that time, Bobby Kennedy, gave the commencement address at Ole Miss. He was introduced by Senator Jim Eastland and received a standing ovation. Twelve years after the event, Ben Williams, also of Yazoo City, the first black football player at Ole Miss, was elected Colonel Rebel by the student body, the highest honor for a male student. (He is now with the Buffalo Bills.) More recently, Mississippi's Leontyne Price was named honorary alumna, and for weeks an exhibit depicting her life was displayed in the library. John Slaughter, the black physicist, was the commencement speaker...
...final contention lies in the traditional symbols of the Old South. Many blacks complain of the school fight song Dixie, the mascot Colonel Rebel and the waving of the Confederate battle flag at athletic events. The university's first black cheerleader, John Hawkins of Water Valley, Miss., attracted attention before the first football game of this season when he announced he would not carry the Confederate flag on the field. His wishes were understood by both the administration and many of the students. Hawkins, as well as Steve Sloan, the fine young Ole Miss football coach, favors a modified...
...with a list of demands ranging from nationalization of the school system to the release of 80 political prisoners. The government retorted that there were no political prisoners in Honduras. Moreover, it said, many of the people listed 'by the guerrillas were living abroad, and one, a Salvadoran rebel known as Comandante Alejandro Montenegro, was actually in custody in his own country...
...when leftist guerillas, industrial workers and peasant farmers began a battle against a U.S.-backed junta that overthrew one military government and installed another. The chief antagonists in the war are the government's security forces and the Farabundo Marti Front for National Liberation (FMLN), a coalition of five rebel groups which is named for a Salvadoran populist leader...