Word: rebel
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This time, though, Little Richard isn't boogieing into new musical territory but following in some unlikely footsteps: those of a rebel named Raffi. Raffi is the Canadian troubadour whose frisky tunes and kid-comfy lyrics sold 7 million copies of albums and videotapes during the early 1980s and transformed children's music from a backwater populated mainly by folk singers and people who performed preachy songs in funny voices into a booming business. Raffi has since retired from entertaining the peanut-butter-and-jelly crowd, but major record labels and musicians of every persuasion, from rock to reggae...
Because of their proximity to power, the hired guns in Bush's posse are the most controversial. Charles Black, the unpaid senior political adviser to the Bush campaign, is a partner in the public relations firm of Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly, which represents a rebel faction in Angola; the governments of Greece and Nigeria; and the Pacific Seafood Processors Association, which battled the Commerce Department earlier this year for the right to process a larger share of the $800 million Alaskan pollack catch. James Lake, Bush's unpaid deputy campaign manager, is a partner in the public relations firm...
...incarnations that contain varying degrees of truth, Perot is both a folksy speaker and a spinner of international conspiracy theories. He is both a computer entrepreneur and a Bubba-like rebel. He is both a Texarkana boy delivering newspapers on a bicycle and a dashing rescuer of two employees from the depths of revolutionary Teheran. Most visibly, he is both a billionaire and a populist...
...responsible tried for murder, even though a new amnesty law prevents any of the perpetrators from having to serve time for political crimes. They would also welcome the final dissolution of the notorious battalion, as was stipulated under the current peace plan signed by both the government and the rebels last January. But the San Salvador government has indefinitely suspended the battalion's disbanding, claiming the F.M.L.N. has yet to demobilize its troops according to the schedule. The former rebels claim that despite advances in political, police and land reform, they will not meet the Oct. 31 disarmament deadline because...
...these reconciliations remained elusive right to the end, if indeed there is a peaceful end. Piqued at losing the vote to the governing Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), erstwhile rebel Jonas Savimbi, leader of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), claimed that the MPLA rigged the result and only reluctantly withdrew his threat to take his troops out of the newly unified Angolan army, a move that would have put the country back on the brink of civil war. In Mozambique the immediate problem is to get the message of peace...