Word: rebellion
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Case, having overcome rebellion of the G.O.P. right wing in last April's primary, is like Lord waging a cultured above-it-all campaign. Physically, he is much more attractive than the high-domed and weathered Thorn Lord, but he faces many pitfalls: resurgent Democrats, a large Catholic, pro-Kennedy vote, simmering revolt in the local G.O.P., rising unemployment. He barely mentions Dick Nixon in his campaigning...
...soldier, General Phoumi Nosavan, 40, who does not like Communists and says that the prince in Vientiane cannot tell a Red from a banyan tree. Several leaders of Laos' 28,000-man army - armed, trained and paid by U.S. aid-support Phoumi's right-wing rebellion. Also working for the general is the fact that he has had help from Marshal Sarit, strongman of the neighboring kingdom of Thailand, whom he calls uncle (actually, he is a first cousin once removed). Vientiane gets all its fuel and most of its food from Thailand, and Sarit has in effect...
...tribesmen and murdered them all with Sten guns. The U.N. called it "the most brutal massacre yet to have taken place in the Congo," and warned that U.N. forces would intervene the next time. Tshombe woodenly maintained that his secessionist army was only engaged in "hard repression of a rebellion," but a Katanga spokesman finally admitted, "It was a mistake -they didn't intend to kill them...
Asked about U.S. hesitation at intervention during the Hungarian rebellion. Bush described the whole Hungarian affair as "unfortunate," but said U.S. hands were tied...
...inevitable rebellion and battle against her father, the daughter wins all the rounds. She lets two baby wild boars run wild through a military ball and gets the requisite licking. This imposition of authority she neatly overcomes by imagining her tormentor sitting on the toilet. More whippings, and she snaps her father's riding crop in two, tries to brain him with a flower pot. The battle continues in Germany after the war. Her father is now a general in command of a force of French occupation troops, so she naturally sews his medals to the seat...