Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...George Bush is on our side." He plays to the family-values partisans, the isolationists, the creationists and the gun owners, and to the Perotistas who would vote for anyone promising to turn Washington on its head. "I can bring them home," he declared last week of the rebel Perot supporters, "because I'm not part of the system...
...would attend for only a few days and then leave the negotiating to his Foreign Minister, Mate Granic. Worse, he was muttering about taking eastern Slavonia by force if it is not returned to Croatia peacefully in a month or so. The oil-rich territory was seized by rebel Serbs in 1991; negotiations for its return are under way outside the Dayton conference. Clinton, according to State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns, personally remonstrated with Tudjman about giving up the idea of using force. With good reason: it could pit the Croatian and Serbian armies against each other in the bloodiest...
...this pre-positioning, many of those tapped in recent days by the Powell team have come away from the conversations skeptical that he will run. Several noted that Republican Party regulars are historically suspicious of insurgent candidates. Nor do they see him as an eager rebel anyway. So it may be that, having eyeballed the battlefield, the general may not attack after...
...JOHN SWEENEY SAT IN HIS makeshift election headquarters at the Sheraton Hotel in New York City last week, he found himself in a rare position. The avowed rebel of American labor was counting his millions of admirers. Sweeney, 61, the insurgent candidate for president of the AFL-CIO, ticked off some of the army of unions whose support he is counting on: steelworkers, autoworkers, government workers, teamsters, machinists and, most recently, farm workers. His route to this point breaks all convention. Since the confederation known as the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations came together 40 years...
American leadership made possible punishing NATO airstrikes that rocked Serb forces still reeling from Croatia's blitzkrieg, and our resolution brought President Milosevic to end support for his Bosnian clients in an effort to end U.N. sanctions against Serbia. The balance has shifted in Bosnia, and the rebel Serbs recognize that continued conflict would only worsen their position. The Serbs have responded by making their first serious overtures toward peace...