Word: rebellion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...come under increasing attack from the Roman Catholic Church, to which 90% of all Filipinos belong. The hierarchy has accused the government of harassment. Church schools have been taxed, foreign-born priests arrested and convents ransacked. Despite Marcos' periodic claims that his army has crushed the rebellion in the south, where Moslem insurgents are struggling to establish an independent state, the fighting has actually grown fiercer...
...MOSLEM REBELLION: We captured the main headquarters of the Moro National Liberation Front on March 11 in Batong Puti. We captured all their documents. They were in a cave that would have held 1,000 men. Undoubtedly, some of our lower-echelon officials have irritated the Moslems by not being flexible enough. For instance, when I proclaimed that nobody could carry a gun, some of our police and constabulary disarmed the Moslems in an alienating manner in markets and other public places. But one thing I'd like to make clear. We can handle any insurgency or infiltration...
...seems likely that Amin had Ondoga killed to provoke a rebellion and hence justify a purge. If true, the scheme worked because the Lugbaras decided to move. Brigadier General Charles Arube, a Christian member of Amin's Kakwa tribe, joined the conspiracy because he was worried by Big Daddy's purges of the Christian Lugbara, Acholi and Langi tribesmen. Arube was also irritated when he recently returned from a military course in the Soviet Union to find that a Sudanese mercenary had supplanted him as acting chief of staff...
...another threat has arisen. Since last fall a murky little war that pits the Burmese army against a large-scale offensive by a resurgent Burma Communist Party has been raging in the northeast. It is the largest rebellion to threaten Burma since the country gained its independence from Britain...
...chorus of mournful noise is issuing from the cattle-feeding pens of Colorado, Texas and the Middle West-and not just from the steers awaiting slaughter. The feed-lot operators are moaning too, because a consumer rebellion against beef and soaring costs of fattening cattle threaten to trim their profits to the bone. Says an official of the Colorado Cattlemen's Association: "A lot of boys are going to belly...