Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moslems of every political stripe must be free to run for office, excepting only active members of the rebel F.L.N. with criminal charges against them. Even candidates who favor outright Algerian independence must be allowed...
Algeria. Ruefully impressed by De Gaulle's sweeping referendum victory in Algeria (TIME, Oct. 6), the rebel F.L.N. has in recent weeks repeatedly proclaimed its willingness to negotiate with France. As one index of its peaceful intentions, the F.L.N. arranged to release some of its captured French prisoners this week...
...high-minded talk about "hersey," in 1917 Jack Reed was definitely a minor league rebel while he was at Harvard...
...sooner was this settled than delegates from Algeria's rebel F.L.N. marched in, and all but two of the French delegates marched out. In vain did the learned president of the Tunisian National Institute of Arts and Archaeology sing the praises of the Mediterranean, "this happy sea." Italy's Communist Senator Velio Spano, whom nobody could remember having invited, somehow got the floor, delivered the customary party-lining rant against the West. Next day a Moroccan delegate angrily demanded that the Americans, French and Spaniards pull out of North Africa. A French Senator rose to protest that...
...instigators of the violence were probably motivated by fear, said Siegenthaler. "In most counties the Negro population is large, and white parents rebel against thoughts of their children in the same schoolroom with Negroes." They fear that integration in schools could lead to inter-racial marriages...