Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their own lives and are not motivated solely by objective, philanthropic concerns. If this were not true, the protesters would undeniably place South Africa on the back burner and wage war, for example, against the government of Ethiopia, which is restricting the flow of famine-relief efforts to rebel-held areas in that country at the expense of millions. Bok similarly acts with intuitive and political biases, but his biases are neither stronger nor less moral than those who favor divestment...
...insurrection, avowedly mounted to protest Thailand's faltering economy, began shortly after midnight as rebel tanks rolled to strategic positions in Bangkok. By 5 a.m. the insurgents had captured Radio Thailand and at least one government television station. At 7:30 a.m. Bangkok residents heard an announcement on their radios that the "revolutionary party" had seized power. Nonetheless, the atmosphere in the capital was carnival-like. Soft- drink vendors hawked their wares as rebel soldiers slouched atop U.S.-made M- 41 tanks, idly awaiting victory. "This is easy," bragged one air force captain at rebel headquarters. "No fighting. No blood...
...Minister and General Arthit Kamlang-ek, Thailand's Supreme Commander, were out of the country. Before his departure, however, Prem had been informed by Thai intelligence that a coup might occur and alerted loyalist military brass. By 10 a.m. on the day of the coup attempt, an estimated 500 rebels found themselves squaring off against more than 1,000 loyalist troops near First Division headquarters, which also houses the army's main radio station. Without warning, rebel tanks and machine gunners opened fire. The action killed NBC Cameraman Neil Davis, an Australian, and William Latch, his American sound...
Following the abduction, President Duarte received messages of sympathy from President Reagan and other world leaders. But the people he most wanted to hear from, the kidnapers, remained silent. Suspicion centered on the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, the leftist rebel organization that in recent months has threatened to take its struggle against the Duarte government into El Salvador's cities. That campaign got under way last June when an F.M.L.N. terrorist squad gunned down 13 people, including four off-duty U.S. Marines, in a San Salvador outdoor cafe...
...within a few miles of the Pakistani border. About 20,000 Soviet paratroopers, backed by Mi-24 helicopter gunships, artillery and armor, blasted the Afghan border provinces of Paktia and Nangarhar. They were resisted, at times in bitter hand-to-hand fighting, by an estimated 5,000 Afghan rebels known as mujahedin. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, were killed on both sides. At least 300 rebel casualties were carried into refugee camps on the Pakistani side of the border. In the Afghan capital of Kabul, eyewitnesses reported that military and civilian hospitals were filled with wounded Soviet soldiers...