Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...might have overthrown elegant, bearded Acting President Mamerto Urriolagoitia before he knew what had hit him. Hearing rumblings of the plot, Mollinedo moved fast. In La Paz, he arrested most of M.N.R.'s underground general staff; he also captured rifles, submachine guns, ammunition, grenades and documents listing the rebel "government" that was to be headed by exiled M.N.R. Chieftain Víctor Paz Estenssoro...
...conscripts. In a radio broadcast Acting President Urriolagoitia thundered: "If necessary, I myself will fight in the streets ..." A force of 2,000 loyalists converged on Cochabamba. Two days later, the city fell at a cost of less than ten casualties, and the government spoke confidently of isolating the rebel stronghold at Santa Cruz...
...called on Juan Perón's new Foreign Minister, young Hipolito Jesus Paz, four times within twelve hours. How was it, he demanded, that the M.N.R.'s Carmelo Cuellar, thought to be safely out of mischief in Argentina, had turned up at the head of a rebel column...
Over the loud objections of Defense Secretary Louis Johnson, the U.S. decided last week to cuddle up a little closer to rebel Communist Tito. The first step was the sale of a $3,000,000 blooming mill to help out Yugoslavia's steel industry. The next would probably be a World Bank loan. Johnson and his military advisers, who see no point in helping a potential enemy and believe that a Communist is a Communist, had fought for months against the idea. But Secretary of State Dean Acheson argued that doing Dictator Tito a few favors...
Perilous Prose. Fortnight ago she gave her new Domino Furioso, with music by her Brazilian-born Pianist-Husband Bernardo Segall. As in The Desperate Heart and As I Lay Dying, she had employed a narrator. In Domino, a loose theatrical piece about Harlequins, Columbines and Pierrots who rebel against their playwright, there was more narration than choreography...