Word: rebellion
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Bowie put rebellion back into rock. Other rock stars had become complacent and self-satisfied by turning to God, family and country music--Ziggy Stardust (as Bowie dubbed the rock permutation of his chameleon self) was a kick in the pants. Homosexuality was shocking and Ziggy flaunted it in both dress and verse. There was no question about his stance after hearing "Queen Bitch...
African mercenaries: the very term is redolent of Bondish machismo memories. "Mad Mike" Hoare and his swaggering Fifth Commando punishing the ragtag Congolese army during the 1965 Katanga rebellion. Or perhaps Frederick Forsyth's dirty dozen in The Dogs of War, liberating the fictional kingdom of Zangaro from a maniacal, Soviet-backed African dictator-for a price...
...Modest Rebellion. The elite, who since independence have been the stewards-and the main beneficiaries-of Indian democracy, are beginning to feel that the changes of 1975 will be permanent, or at least long-lasting. Perhaps the country's most unhappy lot (apart from the thousands who are still being detained without trial) is the now-shackled press. Somnambulant since June, it was stung to modest rebellion by harsh new controls in early December, which among other things abolished the right of newspapers to report parliamentary debate without restriction, a privilege they had enjoyed for 19 years. The result...
...bloodless "pocket rebellion" by the air force began during the week be fore Christmas, when Brigadier General Héctor Luis Fautario, the air force commander, arrived at one of Buenos Aires' airports to fly to Córdoba. Fautario, an unpopular general unswervingly loyal to President Perón, was detained by high-ranking fellow officers, who thereupon declared a rebellion. Military leaders, apparently sharing the general dislike of Fautario, quickly acceded to one of the rebels' demands and dismissed him. But Fautario's successor, Brigadier General Orlando Ramon Agosti, was unsympathetic to the rebels...
...loyalist commandos who died in putting down the rebellion-Lieut. Jorge de Oliveira Coimbra and Corporal Joaquim dos Santos Pires-were given heroes' funerals after their bodies lay in state at a Lisbon church. Coimbra was buried in Oporto, and tens of thousands lined the roads from the capital to pay their respects...