Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tunisia, Secretary of State for Information Mohammed Masmoudi declared: "France's economic effort is modifying the face of Algeria. Looking at such changes, one cannot adopt a negative attitude." Most encouraging of all to French military men was dramatic new evidence of dissension within the rebel F.L.N. itself. Fortnight ago, after a pitched battle with other F.L.N. forces in Tunisia, 156 disaffected rebels led by Battalion Commander Ali Hambli fought their way out to Algeria, where they surrendered to the French army...
Hambli's desertion was a bad break for the F.L.N., since it coincided with an increasing war weariness in rebel ranks. But it would take far more than the surrender of a few score rebels to end the revolt. "History," noted Britain's Manchester Guardian Weekly last week, "offers no precedent of a colonial people turning away from its nationalist movement after four years of bitter war against the colonial ruler" and a loss of 80,000 lives...
Born in Switzerland, Jean Tinguely was an early rebel, was expelled from school after school and took up art in desperation at the age of 14. Nine years ago, he quit Switzerland in disgust ("They're suffocating in security and drowning in comfort"), settled in a lean-to shack in Paris' scruffy Impasse Ronsin. There, in a litter of old iron, cooky crumbs and whirling clockwork, Tinguely constructs his "abstractions," erratically watched over by his wife Eva. Says her husband: "She paints the kind of things Edgar Allan Poe would have, if he'd been able...
Settling Scores. With Shawaf's death. Mosul became a scene of bloody anarchy. Rebel soldiers fought with loyalist comrades; Peace Partisans gunned for Nasser sympathizers; bedouins moved in to pillage and burn, and in the chaos many old private scores were settled. Shawaf's riddled, smashed body was dragged through the streets, then dumped in a car and driven off to Baghdad. Through two days' wild shooting and looting, three Americans huddled in the Station Hotel bar to save being torn to pieces by the mobs. At the government's call, the non-Arabic Kurdish tribesmen...
...faced with the awesome responsibility of living up to Antigone's advance billing as the girl who would "Rise up alone against Creon, her uncle, the King." Tragic inevitability is embodied in Antigone, "the pride of Oedipus"; "Death was her purpose," and the matter of the burial of her rebel brother's body only a pretext. Miss Allen does a competent job, quite effective in quiet moments, but she is not heroic...