Word: rebellion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...handlers, Bush was often a bristly presence. "Junior," as Washington insiders called him, was out of his element back East, uncomfortable in his father's shadow once again. Of the five Bush children, George, the eldest, had always been the most drawn to Dad's patterns of endeavor. What rebellion he waged was stylistic. He became the real Texan in the family -- chewing tobacco, using barnyard humor, settling in the state's western corner -- the one harboring what his aunt Nancy Ellis calls a "slightly outrageous streak...
...recent turmoil and rebellion included many people because some party members, cadres and especially a minority of leaders were engaged in corrupt practices which made the people very dissatisfied," the People's Daily said. "Organizers of the rebellion used anti-corruption slogans to incite the uncertain public...
Friedman was also on hand at the birth of the intifadeh, the stone-throwing rebellion by young Palestinians living in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Here was David vs. Goliath with a vengeance, shown nightly throughout much of the world on the evening news. But Friedman argues that the myth -- stones triumphing over might -- threatens to bury reality. Israel will not be brought down by slingshots; tanks and troops will not quash resentments. If anything is to be accomplished, a photogenic revolution must give way to hard bargaining...
...Given Communism's 70-year history, marked by repeated reigns of repressive terror, only a forgetting culture could have been so taken by surprise. The week after the Tiananmen massacre, Hungary, which has a harder time forgetting, staged a moving reburial of the men executed for leading the 1956 rebellion. The commemoration reminded us that Western Communism in its 40th year produced precisely the same atrocity -- freedom crushed with tanks and terror -- that Eastern Communism is producing in this, its 40th year...
...Jewish settlers of the West Bank are not easily moved. Despite 18 months of rebellion by Palestinians who also lay claim to the land, most of the settlers are more determined than ever to stay put. But they are less sure about the government's commitment. Angered by the failure of the Israeli army to put down the uprising and its inability to provide them with sufficient protection from the daily onslaught of stones, some of the settlers have launched an intifadeh of their own. Hard-core extremists, numbering several thousand, have organized a vicious campaign of retaliation against Palestinian...