Word: rebels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dealt a staggering blow to Fujimori, who has staked much of his political fortune on stamping out homegrown terrorism. At the same time, it lent worldwide recognition to a group of insurgents that Fujimori only two years ago dismissed as a spent force. With some 340 hostages still in rebel hands by week's end, Fujimori faced an appalling choice: confrontation or accommodation. Challenging the terrorists would risk hundreds of lives, including those of ambassadors from at least 11 countries. Giving in to rebel demands, however, would encourage similar hostage taking in the future and open the door...
...hopes that the initial hostage release presaged a weakening of the insurgents' will were dampened on Wednesday when the commander of the rebel operation announced that if the government did not open talks within one hour, he would start executing hostages. Fortunately, the deadline passed safely--a reprieve that seemed to underscore Tupac Amaru's reputation for favoring bargains over bloodshed...
...agenda for his last days other than trying to fight off prostate cancer, he isn't saying. Government officials say Mobutu's return will revitalize the army and restore Zairian pride, and turn the tide against the rebellion in the east. Yet although the evening news Monday reported that rebel leader Laurent Kabila had been "trembling" since he heard of the President's return, Mobutu brings no army with him. The outgunned Zairian forces have been consistently beaten and humiliated, and it seems unlikely that leadership alone can halt the rebel advance. What Mobutu's arrival is generating...
...knows that won't be enough to stop them. Next time she catches them, she swears, "I'll lock them in every afternoon"--but she looks doubtful even as she says it. Ultimately, she hopes, the striving for success they've grown up with will check the urge to rebel. "I want to be like Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye and stop these kids from going off the cliff," she says. "But then I look at the breadth of the problem and think...
While clinging tenaciously to power, Zaire's tyrant has stockpiled much of the country's wealth for himself: his fortune is estimated at several hundred million dollars. "The Guide," as he has dubbed himself, lavished much of that money on empty show. When rebel looters in Goma recently entered the President's local villa--a mansion Mobutu visited just once, but kept ready for his imminent return--they found a house full of plastic "marble" and fake antiques. Other expressions of his grandeur are not so hollow: he owns chateaus in Spain and Belgium, a town house in Paris...