Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...although unstinting in verbal support for Algeria's Moslem rebels, the Kremlin has given little or no concrete help, has not even recognized the rebel F.L.N. "provisional government." But Red China does recognize the rebel government, and recently feted two of its leaders, Mahmoud Cherif and Youssef ben Khedda, in Peking. Because of the geographical distance, direct Chinese aid could scarcely be anything but financial. But what worries the French more is the possibility that Peking might pressure...
...freeloading on Castro in Havana in a convention dedicated to the fatuous proposition that present-day Cuba is a tourist paradise. Off from Florida went a DC-3 loaded with anti-Castro leaflets, which fluttered down upon the Cuban capital. Fidel Castro, shaken by a key defection in his rebel army that same day, and reports that terrorists were at work, filled the air with machine gun and 40-mm. antiaircraft fire. The wild evening of gunplay killed two Cubans and wounded 48. After that, in frenzied need of a scapegoat, he inevitably launched a TV tirade against...
...first blow in Castro's bad week came from central Camagiiey province, where Major Hubert Matos, 40, has been boss of the rebel army. For months, Matos had been writing Fidel his misgivings over Communist infiltration in the Agrarian Reform Institute-and over illegal land seizures. Castro gradually shifted most of Matos' army friends out of Camagiiey, then cut off the major's ammunition and supplies. Last week, when Fidel's Red-lining brother Raul took over as Minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces, Matos quit in protest. "No one can talk...
...atmosphere of high mystery, France and the F.L.N. rebels moved ever closer to the direct negotiations that could put an end to five years of bloodshed in Algeria. Day after day, diplomats and intermediaries crisscrossed North Africa to exchange hints and glances in the feverish, delicate task of preparing bargaining positions. Rebel "President" Ferhat Abbas flew to Rabat to consult Morocco's King Mohammed V, whose son, Crown Prince Moulay Hassan, had established direct contact with Charles de Gaulle. The Paris weekly Jours de France quoted Abbas as telling its correspondent: "De Gaulle is a big caid [chief...
...National Assembly. It is based on the principle of "self-determination" and would give Algerian voters a choice of three alternatives. The first is integration, complete union with France, as Jacques Soustelle and other leaders of the extreme Right demand. The second is "secession," complete independence, as the rebel leaders have asked, but France would maintain control over the natural resources of the Sahara. The third alternative, and one on which de Gaulle is obviously counting heavily, is a compromise which would give Algeria not independence but a large measure of local autonomy under universal suffrage...