Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...across Mexico, security forces were on the lookout for the mysterious rebel spokesman known as Subcomandante Marcos. Last week the Chiapas leader, who has always been masked in public appearances, was revealed by Zedillo to be Rafael Sebastian Guillen Vicente...
Patti Davis, former first lady Nancy Reagan's rebel daughter, criticized her mother's stringent rules on how many cookies she could eat in her 1992 autobiography The Way I See It. And actress Lana Turner's daughter bemoaned her status as "hopelessly ugly" in her mother's eyes...
...TIME Mexico reporter Ron Buchanan says, President Ernesto Zedillo this afternoon called off his hunt forrebel Zapatista leadersin the southern Chiapas state and offered peace talks to their elusive leader, the mysterious Subcomandante Marcos. Hours earlier, the governor of troubled Chiapas resigned after two months in office, bowing to rebel calls for his resignation -- a move that Buchanan says is inconceivable without orders from Zedillo's highly-centralized national government. The president's about-face comes after an ill-fated weekend effort to hunt down Zapatista leaders, who represent poor Mayan peasants, amid international stock market jitters over the rebellion...
...have a subconscious desire to decivilize ourselves? Every generation has to rebel against the previous one, but all the good things to rebel against--the establishment of the 50s, the wide-eyed leftist political awareness of the 60s, the polyester disco-life of the 70s, the materialistic success drive of the 80s--have already been taken. Grunge-angst, having dispensed with "Greed is good" in the early 90s, now leaves the cutting edge nothing to rebel against but flannel, and what kind of a statement would that be? Nothing is left but to rebel against order itself, to embrace chaos...
...Vietnam war veteran, should make it easier to resolve cases of missing military men. Bosnian Cease-Fire Still Shaky In Bosnia the New Year's cease-fire brokered by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter seemed more elastic than ever. Renewed fighting broke out in the northwestern Bihac enclave, as rebel Muslims and Serbs from neighboring Croatia battled Bosnian government forces. The new violence came just as the new British commander of the U.N. troops in Bosnia, Lieut. General Rupert Smith, arrived in Sarajevo to take up his yearlong tour of duty. The Airborne Downed Overruling the recommendations of top military...