Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...transfer of Algerian Rebel Leader Mohammed ben Bella and four of his colleagues from Paris' Santé prison to more comfortable quarters in a military fortress. Henceforth, the five rebel leaders (whom the French kidnaped off a Moroccan plane in 1956) will have the honorable status of military prisoners. ¶The release of 7,000 Algerians from political detention camps. ¶ The commutation to life imprisonment of all death sentences (198) hanging over members of the rebel F.L.N...
...sort. At De Gaulle's orders the French army has begun to penetrate in force the arid "forbidden zones" of Algeria where the F.L.N. bases its units. Fortnight ago 12,000 French troops, supported by artillery and rocket-carrying fighter planes, surrounded and wiped out two companies of rebel troops. In one week the French claimed to have killed a total of 672 rebels at a cost of 46 French dead...
...hearts and minds of Irishmen he was still "The Long" Fella"-the gangling, imperious young rebel commandant whose gallantry and skill during the Easter Rebellion moved even his British foes to admiration. But, as The Long Fella himself knew only too well, the slow wear of the years had transformed the youthful hero of legend into an old man, too weary to enjoy the daily cut and thrust of parliamentary politics, so near blind that he could no longer read the papers. Last week, as he has so often in the past, Eamon de Valera, 76, imposed his own view...
...Ireland's countryfolk used to sing: "When next we challenge England, we'll beat her in the fight, and we'll crown De Valera king of Ireland." But Dev himself made Ireland a republic. But for 21 of the last 27 years the inflexible ex-rebel, whose dour personality probably owes more to his Spanish father than his Irish mother, has been Ireland's Prime Minister or Taoiseach (pronounced tea-shock). A man of homely analogies, naive honesty and unbudgeable stubbornness, New York-born De Valera dominated Irish politics...
...King moved 20,000 troops-two-thirds of Morocco's army-into the hills, under the command of his son Crown Prince Moulay Hassan, 29. He sent tanks and artillery against rebel roadblocks and used six rocket-firing Morane jet trainer planes against rebel holdouts...