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...CHARGED. CARLOS FERNANDEZ, business leader who headed a two-month national strike against Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez; on charges of rebellion and incitement; in Caracas. Although the strike failed to oust Chavez from power, it crippled the country's key oil industry and resulted in $4 billion in business losses. His arrest is part of a government crackdown on its political opponents...
...vote, and I'm very, very reluctant to give up my freedom of mobility. Because that's what makes my life what it is." Never mind that he has already lost much of his mobility. (Drivers in central London spend a third of their journeys at a standstill.) Rebellion has already taken hold in some corners. Newspapers and websites have shared suggestions for dodging the charge: from high-tech devices that blur the number plate at the flick of a switch to cruder tactics like rubbing mud all over the tag. Motorists Against Detection, which claims to have destroyed hundreds...
...they were nothing more than scrap dealers or smugglers. And as the agency tries to pull together rival Iraqi Kurdish forces into a viable guerrilla force that could take on Saddam, it must confront its sorry history in that territory. In 1995 it attempted to organize a Kurdish rebellion against Saddam, but in the end CIA officers fled their base in northern Iraq, abandoning their Kurdish agents to Iraqi police, who rounded up and executed hundreds. The Clinton Administration, fearing the operation would end in disaster, had pulled the plug...
...supports a rebellion against Indonesian President Achmed Sukarno. The rebels fail, and an American mercenary pilot working for the agency is shot down and captured with papers revealing his employer...
SYRIA Damascus is worried about rebellion among its Kurdish population should Iraqi Kurds gain independence after a war. In addition, the government is reluctant to see U.S. influence in the region grow. Although Damascus will not contribute troops to a U.S. alliance against Iraq, as it did in 1991, it is not adamantly opposing...