Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...angry, self-righteous lone of the singers and those out-of-the-blue slides of bloody North Vietnamese which keep materializing above the stage. Perhaps it also explains the passage from Christopher Isherwood's Berlin Stories which Hill reads before the company breaks into a funky rendition of "Rebel, Rebel." And maybe it has something to do with all the gratuitous semi-nudity, or the baffling pantomimes of torture and death. May be it even explains Leslie Beckhart's stunning array of metallic punk costumes, although they make Peoploids look more like a Fiorucci fashion show than a Washington march...
...election day approached, the guerrillas sought to disrupt the balloting, which leftist parties boycotted, by promising death to voters. Warned one rebel slogan: "Vote in the morning, die in the afternoon." Even before election day dawned clear and stiflingly hot on March 28, the guerrillas launched scattered attacks in several of the capital's northern suburbs and a number of provincial towns. In the eastern city of Usulutan, nearly 500 insurgents made the sharpest assault of the day. Before retreating they managed to prevent local officials from opening the polls...
...down and discuss the complex crises in Central America. Nicaragua claimed that it was eager for talks with the U.S. The top U.S. diplomat in El Salvador proposed that the country's government should "consider options to end the massacre," which was interpreted to mean talking with the rebel leaders. Earlier, an American envoy had flown to Havana for talks with Cuban President Fidel Castro, suggesting to some that the two major Caribbean Basin antagonists might agree to work directly on easing tensions in the region. But beneath these surface signs of flexibility, there remained serious doubts within...
...Said Stoessel of the use of these chemicals in Indochina: "Thousands have been killed or severely injured. Thousands have also been driven from their homeland by the use of these agents." As for Afghanistan, he added, Soviet forces have used a variety of lethal and nonlethal chemical weapons against rebel forces since the invasion in December...
When it came to mudslinging, D'Aubuisson more than held his own. ARENA circulated duplicates of letters from Salvadoran guerrilla leaders to East Germany and the Soviet Union, allegedly implicating Christian Democrats as collaborators in the rebel cause. D'Aubuisson's contemptuous name for the Christian Democrats: "watermelons," meaning that they are green (the party color) on the outside but Red within. The party took out a full-page newspaper advertisement urging the nearly 150 international observers who attended the election to drop by ARENA headquarters for the party's version of events...