Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hurry. It is easy to read a plot into some of Nasser's recent moves. Cairo's Voice of the Arabs radio pours a stream of anti-French propaganda into Morocco, and Nasser gives warm asylum to old Riff Rebel Abd el Krim, a key North African troublemaker, as well as to Jerusalem's Jew-hating Mufti. In the Gaza strip he allows, if he does not approve, the arming and training of the Al Fedayeen commandos, teams of Palestine Arab refugees which periodically cross the border to raid Israel. At the Bandung Conference last April, where...
...that revolt, doomed from the start because no major army units joined in, the rebels struck directly at the seat of power: the pink Government House on Buenos Aires' Plaza de Mayo. In last week's much more formidable revolt, the rebel plan was to take over cities and military bases outside Buenos Aires before attempting to attack the capital...
...recently a well-regarded Peronista-swept into the rail center of Córdoba, Argentina's third biggest city (pop. 350,000). Two Gloster Meteor jet fighters flown by air-force pilots rained down leaflets declaring that the city "has been conquered again for God and the fatherland." Rebel sailors took over the naval bases at Rio Santiago and Puerto Belgrano (see map). Army garrisons seized control of the inland barracks towns of Arroyo Seco and Curuzu-Cuati...
...first government communiqué boasted that "the subversive movement is under control," and rebel units "are being dominated." Such claims were absurdly premature. In Córdoba the besieged police headquarters fell to rebel attackers after a half-hour artillery bombardment. From the Puerto Belgrano naval base, 400 miles southwest of Buenos Aires, naval units marched into the neighboring grain port...
Blanca. Said a rebel radio announcement from Puerto Belgrano: "This is not a revolt of two or four hours. We will carry on as long as is necessary. We ask the Argentine people to join us in our struggle for truth, morality and liberty...