Word: rebellion
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When a band of Argentine officers revolted last Easter, President Raul Alfonsin rushed to the Campo de Mayo army garrison near Buenos Aires and talked the mutineers into surrendering. Faced last week with another rebellion of disgruntled soldiers in the northeastern city of Monte Caseros, Alfonsin chose not to waste any more words. Instead he sent 2,000 loyalist troops to crush the rebels at a local army base, ending a three-day uprising that had spread to several other units...
...dissidents, including Revolt Leader Aldo Rico, 44, a cashiered lieutenant colonel who was embittered by the prosecution of officers for human rights atrocities committed during the 1976-83 period of military rule. He had fled authorities two weeks ago while awaiting court- martial for his part in the earlier rebellion. Declared a jubilant Alfonsin, after receiving the support of the army's high command: "Democracy in this country has been consolidated." But discontent in the armed forces simmers...
Since the mid-1970s the Israeli military, which runs the territories with a combination of soldiers and civilian administrators, has kept rebellion in check with a relentlessly efficient system of control and surveillance. It is a tribute to Israeli security, or to the self-restraint of the Palestinians, that not a single gun has turned up in Palestinian hands during the current unrest. But Jerusalem's peace of mind over the years has come only at the expense of basic civil liberties...
...biggest front-loading rebellion for 1988 occurred in the South, where Tory Democrats have suffered terminal frustration over the liberal influence of Iowa and New Hampshire. They conspired to construct Super Tuesday, March 8, when 14 Southern and Border states will choose a fourth of the Democratic (and nearly a third of the Republican) delegates. The intent was to diminish the impact of Iowa and New Hampshire, forcing candidates to court moderate voters elsewhere. Yet most candidates in both parties have wooed Iowa and New Hampshire more intently than ever, fearing that bad showings would cripple them before they could...
...white," Manila Airport Worker Jessie Barcelona told a hushed Manila courtroom last week. "The gun went off. The man in white toppled forward." The man in white was Benigno (Ninoy) Aquino Jr., the Philippine opposition leader whose assassination in 1983 gave the initial spark to the rebellion that later ousted President Ferdinand Marcos and installed in his place Aquino's widow Corazon...