Word: rebellions
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After the student members of the group took a course last term that focused on low-intensity war Zones, or those "of ethnic conflict, of rebellion at the government, of terrorism," they decided to travel to Nicaragua, said David E. Bell, chairman of the of the Department of population Sciences...
When the food got bad, students got mad. Four undergraduates staged the Rotten Cabage Rebellion of 1807 by presenting then President James T. Kirkland with a bowl of maggoty soup. They were promptly expelled...
...crisis lasted until the government met the rebels' demands and released former Air Force General Frank Vargas Pazos, known by the nickname Loco, who was jailed last March after leading a failed rebellion. Febres Cordero and the Defense Minister were released when Vargas arrived in a special government plane. Febres Cordero said he would not punish "those armed elements that took part in this action...
...teach them to be ladies, not women, in a landowner's household where grandmama sorts her old photos into two piles: "alive" and "dead." The family may as well be dead. They disdain their own culture and borrow Britain's; they ignore the dust clouds of rebellion kicked up by Juan Peron's followers. The mood is languorous, but the snake of sensuality curls under the loose garments of the ruling class. When Miss Mary, out of pity and passion, takes the girls' handsome older brother to bed, the family must dismiss her, as Argentina under Peron will soon purge...
...much of an Iranian policy to be in charge of. The State Department nonetheless exultantly trumpeted its triumph and announced that Shultz now planned to stay in office until the "end of the Administration." Well, maybe: the Secretary is still under fire at a displeased White House for this rebellion. Speculation continues that the Secretary will quietly depart in another few months after the uproar dies down...