Word: rebellions
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Dobbs has written a straight-ahead narrative that makes good use of the documents coming out of newly opened East bloc archives. He reveals, for example, that in spite of their threats and military maneuvers, Brezhnev and Co. never intended to invade Poland, short of an anticommunist rebellion. Dobbs is always clear and persuasive, but he tries so hard to be everywhere--Poland, Yugoslavia, China, Russia--and to explain everything, that his survey ends up feeling disappointingly two-dimensional...
...five months, Mobutu's regime has rapidly and spectacularly begun to unravel. In the streets of Kinshasa his opponents have been clamoring for him to step down. In two of Zaire's most remote provinces, long-sputtering secessionist movements have burst into flames. But it is the full-scale rebellion now sweeping across five eastern provinces that seems most likely to bring Mobutu's rule to an abrupt and unceremonious conclusion...
...pushing the rawest rhymes to No. 1 on the charts? For years now, the largest volume of hip-hop albums has been sold to white suburban kids who've deposed heavy metal and elevated hip-hop to the crown of Music Most Likely to Infuriate My Parents. The suburban rebellion--its record-buying tastes, its voyeurism of what too often it views as "authentic black culture"--has contributed to the primacy of the gangsta-rap genre...
...presence of her beautiful and world-wise best friend, Jane Singh, fills her dreams with images of willowy, "dusky maidens" welcoming Saskia the Wanderer into distant ports. Carefully balanced between worlds, with the imaginative richness of her inner ocean just managing to stave off the outside world of adolescent rebellion and incipient high-school geekdom, Saskia's mental dialogue with the reader will remind many of us of ourselves at that paradoxically selfabsorbed, doubting and arrogant, callous and tender...
...front line in Albania's armed rebellion begins about 25 miles north of the Adriatic port city of Vlora. There, posted across a series of low ridges, about 100 men and boys in civilian clothes, armed with rifles and machine guns, keep watch over the main coastal road, halting the few cars on the move, checking documents and asking questions. The tall man in charge of the group is Krenar Hoxha, who says, "We are waiting in the hills to repel the army of Berisha." Young insurgents fire their weapons into the air and shout, "Down with Berisha...