Word: rebelling
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LIMA, Peru: Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori will allow government negotiators to discuss the Tupac Amaru rebel demand of freedom for their jailed comrades, but the conversation will be somewhat limited. While negotiators can talk about the topic with rebel representatives, Peru's government "cannot approve such (a) liberation," Fujimori said in an interview with Japanese television. Fujimori's comments mark the first time he has relaxed his unbending opposition to releasing the rebel prisoners in exchange for the 73 hostages, including Fujimori's brother and the Peruvian foreign minister, who have been held for a month by the Marxist Tupac...
...without taking a book home. I didn't go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam. That established my independence and taught me I didn't need to rebel anymore." By 10th grade he was teaching computers and writing a program that handled class scheduling, which had a secret function that placed him in classes with the right girls...
LIMA, Peru: As the slow lock-step process of negotiating an end to the three-week old hostage crisis continued, Peruvian rebels released two more hostages Tuesday afternoon and renewed their demands that their jailed comrades be released. Their statements were shouted to TV journalists, who for the first time had been allowed to enter the Japanese ambassador's residence, where 81 people are still being held captive. Released were Honduran Ambassador Eduardo Martel and Argentine Consul Juan Antonio Ibanez. "Any harm to (the hostages) will be the exclusive responsibility of the government of (President Alberto) Fujimori if he decides...
Tupac Amaru (which means "Royal Serpent" in Quechua) resisted his uncle's executioners for years, but was finally captured in 1572, whereupon he was paraded on a mule through the streets of Cuzco and beheaded with a cutlass. Two centuries later, his name was appropriated by another Incan rebel who, after his own arrest, was torn apart by four horses in Cuzco...
...years later, Fujimori seized near dictatorial powers in a "self-coup" that savaged virtually every democratic institution in the country but enabled him to implement draconian security measures that eventually crippled both rebel movements. By 1993 Abymael Guzman, the Shining Path warlord whose face had not been seen in 25 years, was in jail and Polay had been recaptured. An elated Fujimori boasted to a Chilean reporter that "no one here in Peru any longer doubts that [Tupac Amaru] will be defeated this year...