Word: rebellion
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...surveillance operation was a failure in the end. It never fully gauged the true depth of disaffection for the regime or predicted its collapse. By trying to know everything, the Stasi apparatus knew nothing. Barbel Bohley, an artist and organizer of the New Forum movement that led the popular rebellion against the communist regime in 1989, found the information in her dossier ludicrous. "I have never read so much boring nonsense," she said after viewing 25 folders, less than half her file. "If that was my life, then for heaven's sake what did they make...
...most extreme version, the operation would begin with covert CIA stimulation of a new revolt by Saddam's Kurdish and Shi'ite opponents and proceed to very overt bombing of the forces the Iraqi dictator sent to smash the rebellion. That, goes the plan, would so weaken the regime that either the rebels or Saddam's military commanders, or both, would get rid of him. In another version, the U.S. would covertly incite a military coup by Saddam's lieutenants, in part by letting them know Washington stood ready to back them up with air power, if need...
...what some people still call tennis shoes and most everyone now refers to as athletic shoes -- are an American icon. The sneaker is not so much an object as an idea, a symbol of values that America has always taken pride in: social and physical mobility, practicality, informality, even rebellion (such as when Woody Allen wore a pair of Converse high-tops to escort First Lady Betty Ford to the ballet in 1975). It has only been since the 1960s that sneakers have become the shoe of everyday life, the U.S. form of mass transportation. Worn by bums and billionaires...
...Hughes) loves being king. At 50, he has built the Angevin Empire, has three sons and has married the most powerful and desirable woman in Europe, Eleanor of Aquitaine (Suzanne Rose). The only problem is that his sons are weak and unsatisfactory heirs, his wife has staged a rebellion against him and he himself is growing...
Faced with a virtual rebellion in Chechen-Ingush, a small, predominantly Muslim autonomous republic of 1.3 million in the south of the Russian Federation, Yeltsin declared a state of emergency and deployed 532 interior- ministry special police. The show of force only rallied support for Dzhokhar Dudayev, the former general who leads the revolt. As armed loyalists surrounded the federation force, Yeltsin's resolve began to crumble, and he agreed to the withdrawal of the stranded troopers. In Moscow the Russian ; parliament delivered its own blow to the president's authority by voting overwhelmingly to veto his emergency decree...