Word: hideout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...matter how glamorous Charles Boyer made it seem, the Casbah in Algiers is a squalid slum overpopulated by 80,000 natives, where pimps and petty thieves dart about labyrinthian alleyways, secret passages and connecting rooftops. It is also a prime hideout for terrorists of the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN). From its recesses they fan out to plant bombs, stab and shoot, wreaking vengeance on Frenchman and moderate Arab alike. So far this year their bombs have killed 47 civilians, wounded 263 others; as a result, anyone now entering a bus. store or cinema in Algiers is automatically searched...
...flew from village to village. Some said they covered themselves with tiger skins, others talked of the Devil King's sorcerer, who carried the embalmed heads of two virgins in a leather bag. When a detachment of President Ngo Dinh Diem's infantry raided one bandit hideout near the Cambodian border, they found a copy of orders from the Devil King instructing his men to kill, sow confusion among the peasantry and disturb rural security. They were told that anyone who killed ten persons would become able to fly, and anyone who killed 20 would be able...
...funeral of a rebel colonel killed by the Santiago police. The colonel's body was clothed in his military uniform and his casket decked with the rebel flag of Castro's 26th of July Movement. Showing their strength, the guerrilleros swept down from their mountain hideout and attacked military posts at Bueycito and Minas, carried off arms, ammunition and supplies. Then they set two bridges afire on the highway between Bayamo and Manzanillo, and the next day engaged Batista troops at Peladero. In Santiago the funeral turned into a spontaneous general strike, spreading to neighboring towns...
When Rebel Leader Fidel Castro came down from his 150-mile-long Sierra Maestra hideout last month to smash an army garrison. President Fulgencio Batista launched a "campaign of extermination." Since then, the rebel band has not been sighted, let alone exterminated. Last week Batista sent a new field commander, Colonel Pedro A. Barrera Perez, to put an end to the six-month revolt...
Kadarj also offered Mindszenty safe-conduct to the frontier from his hideout in the American embassy, but the cardinal refused, not trusting Kadar's word. Some Vatican officials believe that if Mindszenty were to leave the embassy, it would mean imprisonment, and perhaps death. "The only question is," mused one Vatican insider last week, "should he choose this martyrdom? It would be the supreme fulfillment of his sacred mission. But he cannot offer himself egoistically. It is a question of practical timing and of holy vocation. He cannot submit himself until he himself feels that martyrdom will not unduly...