Word: rebel
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...historical plot, the three main characters are Henry IV, his son Hal, and the Percy rebel known as Hotspur. At the time covered by the play, the actual King was only 36, and the other two were a generation apart at 16 and 39, respectively. Following the lead of one of his sources. Daniel's epic poem The Civil Wars and of course his own dramatic instinct. Shakespeare made the King older and the two rivals both about...
...been at least that. The rebels captured the biggest prize of their arduous struggle when they shot down a helicopter near the Honduran border carrying Deputy Defense Minister Colonel Francisco Adolfo Castillo, 45, and the military commander of Morazan department, Colonel Salvador Beltran Luna, 45. The two officers were flying over rebel-held territory on a reconnaissance mission when their craft was struck by automatic-weapons fire. Beltran Luna was killed in the crash, but Castillo survived and was taken prisoner by the guerrillas. Several days later, Castillo was interviewed during a broadcast on the rebels' clandestine radio station...
...guerrillas wear regular uniforms-Czechoslovak combat boots, fatigue pants and field jackets-and most are equipped with Soviet AK-47 rifles. Massoud has also set up an extremely effective intelligence organization with the help of a number of Afghan government officials. He regularly receives Soviet reports on rebel effectiveness, and on occasion gets maps showing Soviet battle plans. In February, when a Soviet-Afghan operation seemed on the point of encircling Massoud's forces, sympathetic Afghan officers opened a line of retreat, allowing Massoud to slip back into the valley...
...exception is Dr. Martha Richardson, who was Harrison's immediate superior in gynecology at Beth Israel. While Richardson objects to Harrison's "imflammatory rhetoric," she to agrees that physicians often learn to treat patients as objects. She also points out, as Harrison does, that patients themselves must rebel against such treatment. Says Richardson: "We need a revolution in medicine, but we also need a revolution in the community...
Born in 1883 in the Romagna, a region south of Venice, Mussolini was a hereditary rebel; both his father and his grandfather had been imprisoned for their political beliefs. Papa Alessandro, a blacksmith with intellectual aspirations, was one of the earliest proclaimed socialists in Italy. Young Benito was a loner with what would now be called sociopathic tendencies, a street fighter who looked on violence as the natural way to get what he wanted. Yet he was unquestionably intelligent. He read extensively in German, French and English and even wrote a novella in the style of Edgar Allan...