Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Communist rebels of Greece announced a successor to the vanished Markos Vafiades (TIME, Feb. 14). The new leader and "temporary Premier" was loannis (John) loannidies, a seasoned, sinister and widely feared revolutionist who has been a member of the Communist Party since 1918. Henceforth, said the rebel broadcast, the party would have no more truck with "nationalist diversions." Military commanders who could not absorb "Stalinist military science" (i.e., politics first, military exigencies second), would follow Markos into oblivion...
...started out as a barber's apprentice in Volos, Thessaly, rose rapidly in the Red hierarchy, and by 1928 was important enough to go to Russia for indoctrination and treatment in a tuberculosis sanatorium. Exile, jail, conspiracy and murder have long since become his familiars. Recently a rebel deserter was asked if Uncle John had any hobby. The ex-rebel drew a forefinger across his throat and answered: "Counting heads...
...news from northern Greece was the best that gloomy Athens had heard for a long time. It was not a military victory for the government; it was a political crisis in the camp of the enemy. The rebel radio announced that General Markos Vafiades (TIME, April 5), the wiry, hairy soldier who had long commanded the northern Communists, had been "seriously ill" for months and had been relieved of his duties...
...Landlords in Tulsa, Chicago, Denver and Kansas City threatened to evict tenants and take more than 100,000 apartments off the market if rent control is extended. In Kansas City, the Rev. R. Lester Mondale indignantly notified a group of rebel property owners gathered in his church's meeting hall that he had increased their rent for the hall from $10 to $100 a meeting...
...tonic were carried away. The two-story hospital was blown up with land mines. Nine factories were destroyed, including a textile mill which employed 1,000, the biggest in the Balkans. When a workman asked why the means of livelihood of innocent people should be thus snatched away, a rebel answered: "How else are we going to get you people to come to the hills with...