Word: rebels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ceremony, some 3,000 Indian troops landed on the Tamil-dominated Jaffna peninsula in the north of the island. Their task: to disarm the guerrillas and take up peacekeeping duties. Those efforts promised + to be tricky; the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, the largest and most militant of five rebel groups, insisted that they would not consider disarming until New Delhi released their leader, Vellupillai Prabakaran. He had been under house arrest in New Delhi after calling the pact a "stab in the back, but early this week Prabakaran was released and returned to Jaffna after pledging that he would...
...took to the streets even before the agreement was signed. Columns of black smoke rose over the capital as police and soldiers resorted to rifle fire to contain the rioting. By week's end at least 70 people were dead. In the protesters' eyes, Jayewardene had caved in to rebel demands and Indian pressure. Admitted a government official: "Ninety percent of the Sinhalese people are against...
...refused to go along, arguing that his fighters would not be safe without their weapons once Indian forces departed. Watched by paramilitary guards, Prabakaran remained confined to his room at the government-owned Ashok Hotel while the treaty was being initialed in Colombo. The Tiger leadership and several smaller rebel groups declared that they would not even consider laying down their arms until Prabakaran returned safely to Jaffna...
...said, 'No, you can't build a Bible college,' I couldn't build one. But you know what I'd do? I'd fire the board, because I'm the spiritual head of this organization. It can't run without me." Swaggart's board is unlikely to rebel. It consists of himself, Wife Frances, Son Donnie, Daughter-in-Law Debbie, Ministry Lawyer William Treeby and four clergy chums. Swaggart says he is accountable to his denomination, the Assemblies of God, and provides it with audited financial rundowns...
...testimony before the congressional committees investigating the Iran-contra affair, Poindexter insisted he and he alone gave final approval to Lieut. Colonel Oliver North's proposal to take profits from U.S. arms sales to Iran and divert them to the Nicaraguan rebel forces. He claimed to have exercised this authority without ever telling the President, so as to protect Reagan from the "politically volatile issue" that subsequently exploded on them. "I made the decision," Poindexter declared in an even, matter-of-fact tone. "I was convinced that the President would, in the end, think it was a good idea...