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Stewart's journalistic career has taken him through wars and upheavals in Viet Nam, India and the Middle East, yet he considers the Burma rebellion unique. "This is the first genuinely popular revolt I have ever witnessed," he says. "The people here have faced armed force with moral force and given the world a lesson in courage." A lesson that Stewart and Tucci, alone among the Western press, have been on hand to record...
...opera, finished after eight years of starts and stops, must now be staged and led to its audience. The subject matter is a bit of a stumbling block. Robinson has elected to dramatize the true story of Denmark Vesey, an erudite black carpenter who plotted an 1822 slave revolt in Charleston, S.C., and was subsequently hanged for his trouble...
...their latest effort to quell the intifadeh, Israeli authorities announced last week that they had deported four more leaders of the revolt to Lebanon and served expulsion orders on 25 others. They also formally outlawed the Palestinian popular committees that help run the uprising in cities and towns throughout the West Bank and Gaza Strip...
...trends and popular revolutions, California often sets the agenda for the rest of the U.S. The 1978 passage of the state's Proposition 13, which slashed property taxes by nearly 60%, sparked a nationwide taxpayer rebellion. Now Californians may be in the vanguard once again. A powerful grass-roots revolt against painfully high car-insurance rates is roiling the state where people live to drive...
...Ralph Nader-backed consumer group called Voter Revolt to Cut Insurance Rates is pushing for Proposition 103, which would slash rates 20% and force companies to win regulatory approval before raising prices again. The insurance companies are staunchly opposed to any new government regulation. The measure would also prohibit firms from charging unusually high premiums solely on the basis of location (see illustration...