Word: rebels
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...plants and water lines -- not to mention scrounging for food -- the regime also threw its energy into smashing the Shi'ites in the south who want Saddam's secular Baathist regime replaced by Islamic rule. In the five weeks since the liberation of Kuwait, Baghdad has retaken every major rebel-held city and town, sometimes with terrifying vindictiveness...
BEFORE THE WAR, Bush called on the Iraqi people "to take matters into their own hands" and force Hussein "to step aside." According to a report in The New York Times, the CIA--under orders from Bush--"probably directly counseled" opposition groups to rebel throughout the war. Shortly after the liberation of Kuwait and the slaughter of fleeing Iraqi troops--the end of our war, if not theirs--Bush promised the Kurds and Shiites that he would use American air power to ground Iraqi helicopters. He lied. Having told two peoples to rise up against their oppressor when it suited...
...armed forces remained loyal to Ferdinand Marcos in the wake of massive election cheating in 1986, Corazon Aquino would not have become President. Had rebel factions of the army succeeded in the coup attempts that followed, Aquino would not still be in office today. In almost every case, the man who made the difference was General Fidel Ramos, Marcos' mutinous vice chief of staff and Aquino's faithful Secretary of Defense. Last week Ramos, 63, declared his intention to go after the top job himself -- constitutionally. In a move that surprised many of the other 10 contenders, Ramos announced...
...banned use of the flag in official activities, began demanding the right to wear it on their clothes. What started as a violation of the school's code of conduct soon developed into a full-scale freedom of speech demonstration, with 80 students and parents parading the rebel banner on Duncan's East Main Street. Said 10th-grader Jamie Dill: "My daddy gave me this ((flag)). I believe in what it stands for." By the time the flap subsided last week, about 100 students had been suspended...
...interview, Kerrigan refused to say exactly where she was born. The most specific thing she would say is, "I was born in the South. I was born a rebel." She says she has lived in Mobile, Alabama; Great Falls, Virginia; and Arizona...