Word: rebels
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Last Friday, President Clinton launched an investigation into the role employees of the central Intelligence Agency (CIA) played in the murder of Law School graduate Jennifer K. Harbury's husband, Guatemalan rebel leader Enfrain "Everado" Velasquez...
Former President Jimmy Carterannounced that he has brokered a two-month ceasefire in one of the world's lesser-known hot wars, a bloody, 12-year conflict between Sudan's Islamic government and rebel fighters.Carteradded, surprisingly, that public health concerns motivated the two sides to compromise: "The primary purpose of this agreement is to permit the leaders and citizens of Sudan and international agencies to carry out a major effort to eradicate guinea worm, prevent river blindness and immunize children against polio and other diseases," Carter said in a statement. The cash-strapped Muslim fundamentalist government spends more than...
...Guatemalan government exhumed two graves to prove Everado committed suicide, but Harbury's forensic experts determined the corpses were not the rebel leader's remains...
Central Intelligence Agencyofficials denied charges by Rep. Robert Torricelli (D-N.J.) that the agency witheld information about the deaths of an American innkeeper and a Guatemalan rebel leader married to a U.S. citizen. But the agency said nothing about the congressman's most explosive allegation. In a letter delivered to President Clinton on Wednesday night, Torricelli, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, said that the two were murdered by a Guatemalan colonel who was on the CIA payroll. "When there is an investigation about the death of an American citizen, withholding information about those responsible and circumstances about...
...election bid because he reneged on his "Read my lips: no new taxes" pledge. "It destroyed his presidency," Gingrich told a U.S. Chamber of Commerce town meeting broadcast around the country. Gingrich andHouse Majority Leader Dick Armey(R-Tx.) called on voters to put grassroots pressure on the rebel representatives -- 102 of the 230-member GOP caucus -- to "keep our word on theContract." The rebels want to restrict tax credits to families with incomes no higher than $95,000, instead of $200,000. Rubbing salt in the wound, House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt released Treasury Department figures today that...