Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rebel Archbishop Lefebvre vows to consecrate four ultra- traditionalist bishops. Result: the first Catholic schism in a century...
...told New York magazine in March, "When you start off with the idea that you're going to write, you think of yourself as some kind of rebel. Then you get to New York and you see there is as much conformism within the literary world as there is in the military world or business world. The rebel in a free country is the rebel within the status group.[Clothes] are a way of treating the literary-status world as cavalierly as I or any other writer would treat the outside world...
...former colonel in deposed Dictator Anastasio Somoza's National Guard. But peace, or at least the promise of it implicit in the 60-day cease-fire signed by the contras and Sandinistas in March, has triggered a power struggle that threatens not only Bermudez's leadership but also rebel unity. Unless quickly settled, the infighting could prevent further peace talks and leave the Sandinistas in an even stronger military position when the cease-fire expires at the end of this month...
...shadowy, Maoist-oriented guerrilla group committed to overthrowing the Lima government. Her terrifying sojourn ended two weeks ago, as abruptly as it had begun, but not before she had spent four months in a prison, where she lived alongside members of one of the world's most secretive rebel groups...
...take up a doomed burden, knowing that every time he rose to speak in front of a crowd it was to stare his own death in the eye. But the Kennedy magic, both a blessing and a curse, attached to him, and he quickly became a Senator, then a rebel candidate for President. Almost as quickly, he too was killed...