Word: rebellions
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...issue is not North's sincerity; it is whether the President or his staff deliberately set out to circumvent U.S. laws. The Congress we elected voted to cut off funds to the contra rebellion. No amount of sincerity justifies breaking...
...that 500 soldiers attacked and overran a strongly held Sandinista garrison at San Jose de Bocay in north-central Nicaragua. Although the Defense Ministry in Managua announced fewer casualties and a much less successful assault than contra leaders claimed, the insurgents said it was their biggest victory since the rebellion began six years ago. Contra military progress could help swing moderate lawmakers in favor of continued funding when the issue comes to a vote this fall...
...year is 1780. Sir Henry Clinton, commander of the British forces attempting to put down the rebellion in the 13 American colonies, has received a startling and welcome bit of news. General Benedict Arnold may be willing to betray the revolutionary cause and, in the bargain, to arrange for the surrender of his stronghold at West Point. Sir Henry needs a liaison between himself and Arnold to conduct negotiations both delicate and possibly dangerous; the task falls to Clinton's adjutant, Major John Andre. Arnold's treason is a familiar story, but British Journalist Anthony Bailey retells it from...
...stake in preventing war. The quest for nuclear parity began with the limited test-ban treaty negotiated under Khrushchev, which led to the era of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks and detente under Brezhnev. But Khrushchev's thaw turned out to be more rhetoric than reality. He crushed the Hungarian rebellion, built the Berlin Wall, deployed Soviet missiles in Cuba, directed Moscow's missile buildup and pushed a strategy of fostering pro-Soviet revolutions in the Third World...
...original June deadline and was rescheduled for last week, had all the trappings of a James Bond thriller, including hidden treasure and a scheme to kidnap Philippine President Corazon Aquino. If actually carried out, an invasion could also have been bloody. Marcos, who was deposed in a People Power rebellion in February 1986, planned to buy $18 million worth of Stinger missiles, M-16 rifles, tanks, grenade launchers and enough ammunition to equip 10,000 soldiers for three months...