Word: rebels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...because the Congolese army grew somewhat more efficient, partly because the geographical isolation of Kwilu province made it impossible for Mulele to replace the bows and poisoned arrows of his followers with modern weapons. Last week the Congolese government of President Joseph Desire Mobutu squared accounts with the former rebel leader by executing...
...regime of Left-Winger Antoine Gizenga, had returned to Kinshasa in late September after nearly four years in hiding and in exile. Foreign Minister Justin Bomboko announced that Mulele had rallied to the Mobutu government and thus came under an amnesty proclaimed last August. He personally escorted the former rebel across the Congo River from the neighboring Congo Brazzaville, while Mobutu was on a private visit to Morocco. On his arrival, Mulele was feted over champagne and caviar. But Mobutu had hardly returned to Kinshasa when he announced that Mulele was not covered by the amnesty and that he would...
Given such power, the disrupter for good is all the more impressive. He is the Doer, an everyday activist who resembles Camus' rebel, one who retains "a strange form of love" for the society he attacks. He wants to improve it, not kill...
...Premier Aleksei Kosygin on Aug. 22, the day after Warsaw Pact forces invaded Czechoslovakia. If Evtushenko was indeed the author, it was a bold and surprising act. Once the daring young man of Russia's liberals, in recent years the poet has become a kind of safe Establishment rebel. He wielded a careful pen, which earned him gaudy trips around the world, reading his works as a representative of the nation's arts. There was some suspicion that his protest telegram might be a forgery, possibly committed by the Soviet Secret Service, which has been known...
Even as a way of punishing students who disrupt universities, the restrictive amendments do not do an effective or decent job. All the amendments discriminate against the poor, since those rebel students who do not receive federal aid are not affected by the provisions. Congress is playing with federal grants, loans, and scholarships as a form of punishment, a function that they were never intended to serve and one that they do not seem to serve very well...