Word: rebelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While still in Shanghai she had heard rumors about the Red Army's maverick chief Mao Tse-tung and his redoubtable partner Chu Teh. Sporadic news reports and travelers shuttling back and forth between the White and the Red Areas conveyed mixed impressions of Mao, a peasant rebel and people's defender with a modern revolutionary consciousness. She had only a faint idea of his appearance and no notion of his personality. Like other recruits to Yenan she was fascinated by differences among the leading comrades and became aware of Mao's aura of aloofness-his Olympian...
...that. Last November, in a clash with National Guard troops, the Sandinistas' secretary-general, Carlos Fonseca Amador, 40, was killed en route to a meeting, laid out under a mango tree and photographed; his fingertips were then sliced off for exact identification. Other ranking leaders of the leftist rebel movement have also been killed. Last month, in an unpublicized trial in Managua, 36 captured guerrillas and 74 of their compatriots who were tried in absentia drew sentences ranging from 18 months to 129 years in prison...
...Rebel...
...firebrand Sadlowski, 38, by a margin of about 3 to 2. His victory will bring sighs of relief at AFL-CIO headquarters and in the councils of the steel industry. It means that the federation's biggest union has been kept out of the hands of a rebel, Sadlowski, who has sharply denounced George Meany's leadership. It also means that the Steelworkers will begin bargaining this week for a new contract with mills still bound by a no-strike agreement that McBride backed and Sadlowski opposed...
Humiliation and Horror. Meanwhile Pierre Claustre, frustrated by the delays, tried to free his wife by arranging an arms delivery to the rebels himself-and wound up as another prisoner. Finally, Habre was overthrown as rebel chief by Goukouni Oueddei last November.lt is thought that Oueddei depends on Libyan financial support and was thus amenable to Gaddafi's suggestion that the Claustres be freed. Presumably, the Libyan ruler felt they were more useful as the beneficiaries of a spectacular humanitarian gesture than as hostages...