Word: rebelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There were, to be sure, some ominous notes. When the Khmer Rouge seized the government radio station, a rebel spokesman said menacingly in a broadcast: "We did not come here to talk. The Lon Nol clique [a reference to the President, who fled about a month ago] and some of its officers should all be hanged." Fearing reprisals from the Communists, a number of government officials and military officers, plus an estimated 2,000 other Cambodians, took refuge in the Hotel Le Phnom, which the International Red Cross had declared a neutral zone...
...city fell; in the south, in the southwest, on the Mekong riverbank across from the capital's east side, insurgents rolled easily over government defenders. Highly accurate U.S.-made 105-mm. howitzers, captured from government forces, were brought within range of the airport to support a punishing rebel ground assault. After a three-day-long seesaw battle, first the control tower and then the airfield fell...
...increasingly elaborate soup-to-nuts meal services and, while offering a variety of excursion rates, raised regular fares more than 40 times since the jets began flying in the U.S. in 1958. After the last across-the-board fare boost of 4% in November, however, customers suddenly began to rebel. Airline traffic has slumped 15% below a year ago, even though the industry has added more capacity. As a result, most major carriers are reporting losses: $55 million for TWA, for example, in January and February alone. Now the lines are starting what Eastern Tariffs Manager DeHart Clute calls...
...title role in Mozart's Don Giovanni: the Italian equivalent of Don Juan who, having seduced over 1000 women before the opera starts, goes on to seduce a few more before he's packed off to hell. Diaz says that he tries to portray this character as a glorious rebel rather than as a rank scoundrel, adding. "From a chauvinistic point of view you could say, look at all the women he made happy! Apparently he was an irresistible character--a terrific lover, a wonderful human being, at least for those few minutes or hours or days which he chose...
They also were slowed in their drive against other parts of the "rocket belt." Two infantry battalions temporarily refused to participate in the attack last week, complaining that they lacked food and that their officers were using poor tactics. They would have faced a formidable barrier around the rebel rocket sites: antitank mines and rockets, antipersonnel mines and machine-gun nests. So far, the best the government has been able to do is sneak observers forward near the rocket belt; when they hear the whoosh of a missile leaving its tube, the observers push a button that triggers warning sirens...