Word: rebels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Similarly, the report relates how the private fund raisers Carl Channell and Richard Miller collected some $10 million for contra support but spent only $4.5 million on the rebel forces. The rest of the money went into lavish offices, fancy limousines and high salaries. The two have pleaded guilty to tax fraud for claiming that their operations were entitled to an IRS exemption...
...been a season of unprecedented questioning, which began when Gary Hart was asked in a press conference, "Have you ever committed adultery?" Soon reporters were talking about who else would be asked the A question. And then the M question. Few candidates summoned the nerve to rebel, as Alexander Haig did on a CNN interview when asked why he was "touchy" about the pot issue. "I'm not touchy about it at all," he replied with a Haigian glare. "But if you ask me if I ((used marijuana)), I'm going to tell you it's none of your damn...
...Mama Alice is rooted in Uganda's tribal politics as well as in Africa's tradition of magic worship. The daughter of an Anglican clergyman and a member of the small Acholi tribe in the savannas of northern Uganda, Alice has appealed to regional animosities to build her rebel force, composed mostly of peasant farmers, teenage boys and ex-soldiers. One source of strong resentment is the domination of Museveni's National Resistance Army by Bantu-speaking southerners and westerners. Alice claimed to be under the command of a holy spirit called lakwena, the Acholi word for messiah, which...
...wore a plastic rosary and crucifix around her neck, Alice declared herself the possessor of many supernatural powers that have no connection with Christian belief. She spoke only Acholi and a smattering of English but claimed that her spirit was fluent in 74 languages. The oil she encouraged rebel fighters to smear on their bodies, which came from shea trees and is used in the manufacture of shampoo in the West, would make bullets "slip on top of your skin" and bounce back at the enemy. Alice also passed out sachets of powder ground from squirrels' bones that she promised...
Faced with at least three other rebel groups, Museveni was slow in committing his troops to quell the Holy Spirit Movement. Beginning in October, however, heavily armed government forces went on the offensive, with predictable results. With all the fervor of a fanatic, Alice continued to press-gang new recruits and ordered the death of doubters. "We leave everything in the hands of God," she said three weeks ago, sitting in the dappled shade of a banana grove near Lake Victoria. By the time Mama Alice went into hiding two weeks later, seated on a bicycle that was being pushed...