Word: rebellions
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...full of himself, his hopes that his new book will hit the best-seller charts, his dreams that an impending visit from Good Morning America will make him a media star. He has no thoughts to spare for a wife heading into terminal recessiveness and kids heading toward overt rebellion as they try to get through to their inaccessible...
...pleaded with Iraq's Shi'ites to exercise moderation. The old man, who is over 90, even traveled from Najaf to Baghdad to speak with Saddam. According to diplomats in the capital, the government promised to release six members of Khoei's family if the Ayatullah would condemn the rebellion on Iraqi television. He did so, but rather than deliver on his promise, Saddam double- crossed him, putting even more of his relatives behind bars...
Terror is back in style in Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Gone are those brief days after the war when, with Saddam looking totally vulnerable, open dissent as well as outright rebellion flared. With the unrest now almost fully suppressed, dreams of a new regime in Iraq have given way to the old hopelessness and fear. Saddam promises democracy and greater freedom of expression, but the Iraqi people expect only despotism. Asked about anti- Saddam demonstrations in March, a Baghdad taxi driver replies, "You cannot ask such questions in this country. If I talk to you, the police will come...
...headmistress of a girls' school in Saddam City, a poor Shi'ite suburb of Baghdad, is equally reticent. During the rebellion, soldiers cordoned off the neighborhood for three days and searched every house for weapons, killing 200 people in the process, according to a source close to the Iraqi army. Today all is quiet in the rubbish-strewn streets, but the memory lingers. "Go away," the headmistress entreats when asked simply to comment on daily life in Iraq. "It is dangerous for us and dangerous for the school...
...that they are not supposed to have in society. If they want to wear a bra, they can wear a bra. If they want to cry, they can cry. If they want to kiss another man, they can kiss another man. I give them license to do that. My rebellion is not just against my father but against the priests and all the men who made the rules while I was growing...