Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fidel Castro fumed. A court of his own rebel judges had acquitted 19 pilots, ten gunners and 16 mechanics of Dictator Fulgencio Batista's air force on trial for "war crimes." Taking judgment into his own hands, he decided that the pilots were guilty as charged of "genocide, murder and homicide" in the bombing and strafing of villages during his war on Batista, ordered the verdict reversed...
Furious at the acquittal, Castro exploded that "it has been a grave error of the revolutionary tribunal to absolve those criminal pilots." He had Chief Defense Counsel Aristides Dacosta hauled in by rebel troops and flown to military headquarters in Havana for a talking-to. He sent his bearded Defense Minister, Augusto Martinez, to Santiago to organize a "review" court. The new verdict: 30 years at hard labor for the pilots, lesser terms for non-pilots. Two were acquitted...
BEIRUT, Lebanon, March 9--Iraqi rebels claimed tonight that they held the oilrich north, under air attack, and were fanning out over Iraq from Mosul. The government claimed the rebel uprising was destroyed by bombers and troops of Premier Abdel Kassem's Baghdad regime...
Both sides--government and rebel--claimed victories in rival propaganda broadcasts from stations 200-odd miles apart. There was no independent confirmation of any victory claims. Late tonight the government radio added a new twist--it began to ignore the revolt entirely...
...blackmail Duvalier into cooperating or try to bounce him from office. To put a squeeze on Duvalier, Castro has given friendly refuge to Duvalier's archenemy, Planter Louis Dejoie, the defeated candidate in Haiti's mulatto-v.-black presidential elections in 1957. Dejoie confers daily with top rebel leaders, runs a program of incitement to revolt three nights a.week in French and Creole over Radio Progreso, a 5,000-watt Havana station. Fortnight ago, Dejoie announced a unity pact with rabble-rousing ex-President Daniel Fignole, a New York-based exile, and Dr. Clement Jumelle, who is hiding...