Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...musical rebel from the start, Cecil Taylor was either ignored or actively denounced by much of the jazz world when he first started performing...
...time for Yeltsin to strike such a deal would have been before the invasion began on Dec. 11. Now it could be interpreted as a humiliating admission of defeat at the hands of rebel bands. And after the destruction of the past month, would the Chechens ever willingly rejoin Russia on any terms? Would Yeltsin dare settle for approximately the bargain he might have got without fighting? That would in effect mean confessing that hundreds, perhaps thousands of Russian soldiers had died, and the army had suffered a debacle for nothing. It is questionable whether Yeltsin could survive that...
...Bosnian Serbs agreed to end the blockade of Sarajevo this week, allowing food and supplies to reach its residents freely for the first time in months. The four-month old cease-fire now is holding for most of Bosnia with the sole exception of Bihac, where Croatian Serbs and rebel Muslim leaders continue to shell government-held areas. Sarajevo has been closed to civilian traffic since July...
...long after he took office last month, Mexico's new President, Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon, received a note of congratulations. The sender was Subcommandant Marcos, the masked, green-eyed leader of last year's bloody rebel uprising in the remote southern highlands of Chiapas. What it said was not exactly cordial, but it was to the point: "Welcome to the nightmare...
...Chiapas, for now Zedillo has some breathing room. Recognizing that he | had to defuse the situation quickly, last week he drew back an army buildup around rebel areas and accepted the rebel demand that Bishop Samuel Ruiz help negotiate peace. But in his new economic plan he is certain to defer his election promise that 1995 will be the year that prosperity will trickle down to the masses. That could mean the kind of social discontent that launched Mexico on its most recent cycle of headaches. Welcome to the nightmare...