Word: en
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President De la Guardia's government is worried that even a small band of invaders might touch off a full-scale revolt. The government also has been increasingly jumpy over reports that a new band, numebring perhaps as many as 300 men, is en route by ship from Cuba...
...ruler of Tibet, the 22-year-old Panchen Lama, had promised full support to the Red army's crushing of the rebellion and expressed "great sympathy and concern" for his friend, the Dalai Lama, "who has been abducted by the rebellious elements." Red China's Premier Chou En-lai unctuously declared that "although the Dalai Lama has been abducted to India by the rebels, we still hope he will be able to free himself and return to the motherland...
...does not stir Asians much. But the crime against Tibet has opened many Asian eyes. The independent Times of Indonesia warned that Red China was losing what few friends it had left. From Japan to Ceylon, Asians angrily recalled the fine words of Red China's Premier Chou En-lai at the Bandung Conference in 1955, when he warmly embraced Nehru's Panch Shila (Five Principles) and specifically promised to respect "the rights of the people of all countries to choose freely a way of life as well as political and economic systems." India's press...
...conference on how to counter the French army's increasingly aggressive tactics, Amirouche and two aides began the long hike to rebel headquarters in Tunis. They never got there. Acting on a tip, 3,000 French troops surrounded a craggy mountain where Amirouche had met local rebel leaders en route. After five hours of shooting, the French counted 71 dead. Among them was Amirouche, who was found beside a rock, his green eyes open, his chest and neck torn by grenade fragments...
James McKeon, the police sergeant who arrested the three freshmen, was at the cemetery on another assignment when he claims to have found the students drinking beer around their parked car. En route to the Wakefield police headquarters, the trio, which was following McKeon in their car, reportedly tried to throw two typewriters from the auto...