Word: rebels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Loyalists supplied the redcoats with food when George Washington's men were desperately hungry; they circulated counterfeit Continental currency to weaken the rebel economy, and they distributed handbills urging wavering patriots to switch to the British side. Some 50,000 actually took up arms and joined British regiments. In 1780, when Washington's troop roster numbered a mere 9,000, there were 8,000 Americans fighting in redcoat units...
...Biafra, thundered across Nigeria's secessionist Eastern Region last week like the throb of primitive war drums. It was directed at Biafra's Ibo tribesmen, who set up an independent country to escape persecution, but few were in a mood to heed its challenge. Four months after Rebel Leader Odumegwu Ojukwu declared Biafra's independence, federal troops under Major General Yakubu Gowon slashed deep into Ibo territory, rained shells down on the Biafran capital of Enugu and sent frightened Biafran soldiers and civilians fleeing by the hundreds. The fall of the tiny breakaway republic (pop. 12 million...
...prostate condition so that an operation may not be necessary until after the synod ends next month. Unlike an ecumenical council, which has well-defined ecclesiastical powers to legislate for the church, the synod is a purely papal creation. If Paul wants no further reform, the bishops can hardly rebel against his wishes...
Offering Advice. The delegates served notice that secessionists will not be tolerated in the African countries, thus condemning by inference the rebel Biafrans of Nigeria; they also made plans to send a six-member delegation to Nigeria to offer advice on ways to end the civil war. Kenyan, Ethiopian and Somalian diplomats took the occasion to arrange talks for next month aimed at ending the revolt of Somali tribesmen in Kenya and Ethiopia. While Haile Selassie urged an armed assault on the white-supremacist government of Rhodesia, the delegates more realistically decided only to increase their financial support for bands...
...bourgeois parents drifts from membership in a mild radical party to participation in an assassination plot with bomb-throwing anarchists. Any work on this subject inevitably demands comparison with some 20th century masterpieces, including Malraux's Man's Fate and Camus' long essay The Rebel. In that company, Koningsberger is hopelessly out of place; what is more, his character is also out of date. A.'s home is an imaginary European country, not Africa or Asia, where the action is. Furthermore, A. is totally unversed in Mao, Ho Chi Minh or Che Guevara...