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...rooftops and apartment windows, they harried their powerful oppressors in the classic revolutionary manner, and at week's end they had wrung from the most ruthless of modern despotisms a promise of the right to be free. Havana, Cuba Dec. 9, 1957 Actually, the top leadership of the running rebellion is so prosperous, conservative and respectable that amused Habaneros are calling it "the best-dressed revolution in history." Of the chief rebel plotters outside the Sierra [Maestra, the rebels' mountain base], four are lawyers, three are physicians, two are financiers, one a mill owner. Deftly combining rebellion with business...
...provide the grounding these kids need, but it can be extremely difficult for some foster teens to make the transition into a permanent family. About a quarter of adolescent adoptions fail before they're finalized, vs. about 12% of adoptions overall. "You get the double whammy of teen rebellion combined with the challenge of asking the child to change their way of life, which for them is like changing their identity," says McCreight. To make such adoptions work "takes flexibility and families that are willing to give unconditional love and set limits and discipline with love," says Annie Erickson...
...late April they demonstrated in Dili. Then, on April 28, Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri ordered the army to break up the protest, which it did with stunning brutality, leaving at least five dead and many more wounded. That worsened longstanding tensions within the Army and police, triggering open rebellion...
...especially its second-largest city, Rio de Janeiro - has seen gang rampages before. But the mayhem in Sao Paulo set an astonishing new benchmark. It erupted last week after authorities transferred 756 gang-affiliated prisoners in an attempt to thwart what they believed would be a state-wide prison rebellion on the eve of Mother's Day, when family visits often provoke unrest. The PCC's reaction was swift. On Thursday night, bandits armed with grenades and machine guns attacked police stations and left five officers dead. Over the weekend they stepped up their attacks with a series of bombings...
...Brass-Hat Rebellion Your story on the growing number of retired generals calling for Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to resign [April 24] showed that our military's patriotism, diligence and other commendable character traits are of little value to the nation when our civilian leaders have poor judgment. Lawrence H. Gordon Honolulu...