Word: rebellion
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...breaks out in the Middle East as the Western powers attack an ambitious Arab dictator. The Soviet Union, threatened by revolution within its empire, takes advantage of the Middle East crisis to crush the rebellion. No, that was not just last week's news in the Persian Gulf and the Baltics; it was what happened during one tragic week late...
...land snatch as a means of liberating the Shi'ite majority in Iraq, which is dominated by a Sunni minority. Should moves to sunder Iraq begin, the country's Kurdish minority might rise up to carve its own state out of the north. That, in turn, might spark a rebellion among Turkey's Kurds...
...failure to deal with the Palestinian problem could likewise stir rebellion in Jordan. Even if Hussein weathers such storms, the Jordanian economy has been wrecked by the cutoff of trade with Iraq prescribed by U.N. sanctions; the specter of the 1989 riots prompted by government austerity measures still looms large...
...youth rebellion of the '60s, the documentary points out, was a logical reaction against the conformist, prosperity-driven, communism-obsessed '50s. The revolt was especially threatening to Middle America because it went beyond politics and challenged the fundamental values of society. And if it ultimately failed to achieve its more grandiose goals, it left its mark in myriad ways, from college ethnic-studies departments to a new role for women. "Maybe the youth rebellion didn't get what it wanted," the narrator asserts. "But perhaps this generation -- and America -- got what it needed." In a program that utilizes music cannily...
...Isaq rebellion did not collapse under the army's attacks and soon controlled the countryside in the north. Its success was matched by the Ogadeni clan, which launched the Somali Patriotic Movement and gradually took over the country's southern region. Those rebels were joined six months ago by the United Somali Congress, organized by the Hawiye clan, which predominates in the center of the country and in Mogadishu. The Hawiyes had been outraged in July 1989 when government troops opened fire on street demonstrations in the capital and killed 450 protesters. Last week the Hawiyes were doing much...