Word: rebel
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...telling moment when Hank Jr. calls the rock-rapper Kid Rock his "rebel son" on The F-Word, a track to which Rock contributes electric guitar. Hank Jr.'s actual son, Hank III, looks a bit like the rakish Rock, with his ponytail and tattoos. But it's Hank Jr. who writes songs close in spirit to Rock's raunch-hound anthems (in Big Top Women, he rhymes: "She had hundred-dollar bills stuck in her thong/ Well big top women sure got it goin' on"). Hank Jr. and Rock are content to crow about what naughty boys they...
KILLED. JONAS SAVIMBI, 67, leader of UNITA, the Angolan rebel group that for 27 years fought the government in a civil war that killed some 500,000; in a firefight with the Angolan army; in Moxico. A U.S. ally in the cold war fight against Marxism in Africa, Savimbi later isolated himself from Western powers promoting democracy there when he kept up the war after losing a 1992 democratic presidential election...
...independence. Once that was achieved, he became a lifelong advocate for persecuted opponents of the country's government, and was jailed several times on charges of organizing illegal political protests during the military-backed rule of President Suharto. DEATH REPORTED. Of JONAS SAVIMBI, 67, veteran leader of Angolan rebel group unita, killed in a gun battle with government troops, according to the army; in Angola's remote Moxico province. Savimbi founded UNITA in 1966 to fight Portuguese colonialism, but when the country gained independence in 1975 he lost power to the then-Marxist MPLA, which has remained in government ever...
...increasing signs of a very real terrorist threat and much fresher links to Osama bin Laden's organization. TIME has uncovered evidence linking two Palestinians and one Jordanian, who are a part of an al-Qaeda cell, with members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), the largest separatist rebel faction in the country. The three were picked up last Nov. 23, their arrests barely making the newspapers. All three are being held at Camp Creme in Manila, officially for violating immigration laws. At least one member of this cell, Ahmed Abed Uthman Masrie, according to high-ranking law enforcement...
...bulk of the rebel force?and its savagery?was saved for the army barracks. After setting fire to several buildings in town and waiting until half the garrison mobilized to douse the flames, more than 1,000 rebels attacked the depleted post. Reinforcements arriving the next day found the soldiers' bodies in a line stretched across the sandbag ramparts. Many bore the powder-burn marks of close-range executions. The garrison commander was found decapitated and quartered, his head, arms and legs stuffed in a sleeping bag. All weapons and ammunition had been taken. Only three soldiers survived. The attack...