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...year-old rebel, who has been visiting college campuses across the United States under the pseudonym Hamed Khanjar, told the Science Center crowd that "Afghanistan has never before been conquered, and I believe that Afghanistan will be free again...
Administration officials have said repeatedly they have no plans to invade Nicaragua, but they are making a concentrated effort to gain congressional support for $100 million in aid for rebel groups trying to overthrow the Sandinista regime in Managua...
...submit to uncorporate diversions like recreational sex. But mere electric shocks, drills and whippings are not the end of his training. As the humor turns from the disparaging to the sinister, he is given a final loyalty test: he must kill his co-worker and confidant. Will he rebel? Or has his brain, like Winston's in Nineteen Eighty-Four, been washed and blow-dried? Suffice to say that only a computer could find the ending happy. Along the terror-ridden corridors of power, Walker, 57, offers an unusual amalgam of merriment and rage. His voice is occasionally too strident...
...well-armed soldiers. Many of them are the young, orphaned children of the more than half a million people killed under Amin and Obote. They are fiercely loyal to their leader. "I fight for Uganda because Museveni is my father," said Sylaz Kazora, a twelve-year-old rebel soldier. "I will die for him. Not for the country...
Museveni, 41, finally met with General Okello in Nairobi, Kenya, last Dec. 17 and signed a peace accord in which he agreed to dismantle his troops and become deputy chairman of a restructured military council. But the rebel leader, who now claims he was forced to sign the peace treaty under "great external pressure" from Presidents Daniel arap Moi of Kenya and Ali Hassan Mwinyi of Tanzania, never put into effect the terms of the agreement. Instead, he returned to his stronghold in the south of Uganda and, a month later, mounted his successful assault on Kampala...