Word: rebellion
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...without pay for a chance at a job. Young men as diligent as that will eventually get ahead-even if they have to storm the presidential palace, burn a minister's Mercedes or join the Union des Populations Camerounaises-a rebel group that has conducted the longest, bloodiest rebellion in Africa, a seven-year war that has cost 50,000 lives...
...with the Germans is almost forgotten today. In 1884, the fast-moving explorer Karl Peters swung through Tanganyika and in six weeks made treaties with twelve chiefs to make Tanganyika a German territory. Harsh administrators, the Germans put down rising after rising, the most serious being the Maji-Maji rebellion in 1905, repressed the people so cruelly that any colonial power to follow could only have seemed gentle by comparison. After World War I, when the British threw the Germans out, Tanganyika became a British mandate, first under the League of Nations, then the United Nations...
Take some Holden Caulfield crap about adolescents trying to find themselves, and a rebellion from the strictures of upper-class society, and you've got the makings of a monumental literary stereotype...
Whether the Iraqi peace would last, or the Kurdish rebellion soon be resumed, seems to depend on how the various terms of the agreement are interpreted by each side. Aref's acceptance of the "national rights" of the Kurds may or may not turn out to be the equivalent of the "Kurdish autonomy" for which Barzani and his pyejmargas have fought so long and so tenaciously...
...revolutionary hero who led his first uprising against the Spanish at 27, headed a peasant army of 50,000 guerrillas on the side of the U.S. in the Spanish-American War, then when Spain lost in 1898 turned on the U.S., demanding immediate independence and starting a second guerrilla rebellion that took two years to subdue, after which he settled down (on a $500-a-month pension) to become a prosperous hemp grower but always wore a black tie until real independence came in 1946; of a heart attack; near Manila...