Word: rebels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...debut escorted by the Gods: He came to Washington with a reference from Felix Frankfurter and he went to Lewisburg ((prison)) with a reference to Frank Costello." In the sentence that opens an essay about one of his favorite subjects, the tragedy (or comedy) of the self-deluded rebel, Kempton dryly sums up another progressive hero: "Paul Robeson's was a career whose rise and fall were both tethered to his identity as a man of conspicuous color." Kempton's asperity can be hilarious. Of the proprietor of Umbertos Clam House in New York's Little Italy, he writes, "Matthew...
...garbled the rhetoric of Modernism. He didn't think of art as a weapon against paternal authority, ^ because he grew up in an extremely nurturing family, a sort of artists' guild presided over by his grandfather, a painter, and his father, the potter Merric Boyd. (The only way to rebel against such a clan would have been to join a law firm...
...especially surprising considering Watergate's negligible importance as an incident. A bungled burglary of Democratic party offices during an election Nixon would almost certainly have won anyway, Watergate didn't involve the covert diversion of government funds from one source to another, or the illegal sales of weapons to rebel forces in other nations...
...best hope for Rwanda now seems to be the successful takeover of the country by the rebels, who have promised to end the chaos. Hundreds of rebel reinforcements were fighting their way into the capital. While guerrillas inside Kigali carried out hit-and-run attacks on government positions, thousands more bombarded the city from positions in the hills to the north. Rwandan army officers scoffed at the idea of a rebel victory in Kigali. But the Front, which claims as many men as the army -- about 20,000 -- is thought to be a better disciplined and more heavily armed fighting...
...with guns and machetes roamed the streets in search of victims. The numbers of dead were estimated to reach into the tens of thousands by week's end, with Belgian troops scrambling to evacuate the last foreigners from the city. Despite tentative talks with government forces that began Friday, rebel troops warned that any non- nationals remaining in the city after 24 hours would be considered hostile...