Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Among the newspapers recently confiscated in Algeria was Le Monde of Paris. Le Monde's of fense: reprinting TIME'S Oct. 13 interview with Algerian Rebel Leader Ferhat Abbas...
Promise Kept. Relations between the two countries reached their lowest point in 1947, when the French ruthlessly put down a rebellion (estimates of rebel dead run from 10,000 to 80,000). They reached their highest point last year, when Madagascar elected its first territorial government, achieved a surprising degree of political stability under Philibert Tsiranana, 46, who became Madagascar's first Premier...
...fresh wave of kidnapings and killings. Though the fighting that the U.S. Marines had been sent in to discourage had presumably ended with the election of an above-the-battle general, Fuad Chehab, as President, it quickly broke out anew. Chehab's choice for Premier, a pro-Nasser rebel named Rashid Karami, had loaded his Cabinet with Nasserites. The precarious fifty-fifty balance of Christians and Moslems, which alone has kept Lebanon tranquil in the past, was broken again. This time it was the Christians who became the rebels...
...Writers. "They have small chins and big heads and cannot win an argument." The few writers he knew who have fought back, Hecht remembered warmly. His favorite rebel: Charles (Fearless Pagan) Lederer, who came to work looking like a "decadent Huck Finn" and was in love with "the most highly paid musical comedy star in New York [Marilyn Miller]." One day she took him to lunch, read him the riot act about rising at a respectable hour and taking daily baths. "When she got done, Charlie handed her his trousers, which he had taken off during the conversation and said...
...take the money and send in false reports. Wormold, who feels he could never be a real secret agent, accepts the advice: he hires imaginary agents, composes false reports, even sends in drawings of vacuum-cleaner parts as diagrams of a devilish weapon being developed in a rebel province of Cuba...