Word: rebels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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CATHY BOOTH, Miami bureau chief, flew to Havana (via Nassau) for the exclusive interview she and assistant managing editor Joelle Attinger had with Fidel Castro after Cuba's shoot-down of rebel planes from the U.S. It was his fourth meeting in a year with TIME. "When we saw him in New York City in October, he wore a Dutch designer suit to woo the business community," she says. "This time he was back in fatigues." Fatigue is one word recent observers have pinned on the 69-year-old Castro, but last week, Booth says, "he looked fully invigorated...
Many white Southerners still deny the insidious nature of the St. Andrew's Cross, the rebel flag. A Southerner once tried to convince me that this flag represented "heritage, not hate," but the rebel flag undoubtedly stands for a "heritage of hate." Despite vain attempts by revisionist so-called scholars to color the Civil War as a primarily economic conflict, slavery was the primary cause of the war. Further-more, the Confederate flag was incorporated into the Georgia state flag in 1956 as a symbolic challenge to the desegragationist agendas of the civil rights movement and the federal government...
Striking parallels exist between the legacy of Nazi Germany and the heritage of the Confederacy and its rebel flag. The Confederacy's struggle to preserve the "peculiar institution" of slavery was an attempt to resist the democratic ideals sweeping the Western world. While other enlightened nations were rejecting the barbarity of human bondage, the South still clung to the remnants of a shameful past. Likewise, Nazi Germany's visions of world conquest and racial purity were a return to the savageness of the Dark Ages...
...irrational hatred symbolized in the rebel flag is often all too palpable in Dixie today. Although Southern racism is sometimes masked, the extent to which raw and malicious discrimination still infects the South would shock most northerners...
...Chechnya has resulted in tragedy for the Chechens, humiliation for the Russian army and political disaster for Boris Yeltsin. His nemesis in the breakaway republic is Jokhar Dudayev, 52, the rebel President, formerly a major general in the Soviet air force. Dudayev lives on the run, moving every night. Time's Yuri Zarakhovich spoke to him recently in a safe house about 500 yds. from the nearest Russian outpost...