Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Everyone, it seemed, found something to welcome in the pause. Lebanese on all sides, rebel, progovernment, or in between, hailed the unanimous Assembly action. Why anyone should put faith in Egypt's reaffirmation of pledges it had systematically broken was not clear. Anyway, Jordan shut off its radio war against Egypt and hoped Cairo would reciprocate. Hussein, who only a year ago had accepted Egyptian command of his army after driving out the British, said he hoped to resume diplomatic relations with the nation that called him traitor. Some diplomats thought that Nasser would think twice about inheriting...
...Croix de guerre for World War II gallantry, Lieut. Dubos was bitterly resentful a year and a half ago when his call-up separated him from his wife, his three children, and a well-paid bank job in Paris. But the massacre of 302 Moslem villagers by the rebel Front de Libération Nationale in the isolated hamlet of Kasba Mechta (TIME, June 10, 1957) changed his mind. As the first French officer to arrive at Kasba Mechta after the massacre, Olivier Dubos was so deeply shocked by what he saw that he wrote his family: "I must stick...
...first the letters that Dubos wrote his family-which rebel agents smuggled into the French mails-were cheerful, and expressed the hope that the F.L.N. would ultimately exchange him for one of its own men held by the French. But then came a letter that hinted at something else. "As a Christian," wrote Dubos. "I am ready for anything fate may bring...
Less than 72 hours later, in the middle of cop-filled Havana. Charles Hormel, 45, U.S. citizen, coolly identified himself to a TIME correspondent as pilot of the plane. A rebel sympathizer who married into a wealthy Cuban family 17 years ago, Dayton-born Charles Hormel (distant kin to the meat-packing family) began flying to rebel territory last October. Twenty-seven times he flew an arms-laden plane, usually rented at Miami International Airport, to Cuba. After ditching on flight 28, he swam ashore, and the rebels put him on a bus for Havana. The Navy recovered the plane...
...last week the rebels halted a Havana-Santiago train, killed most of the armed guard aboard, rescued a rebel leader being transported for trial and. after waiting vainly to ambush the expected counterattack, retired in leisurely fashion. Two days later they severed the SantiagoGuantanamo highway, blocked traffic for three hours, again withdrew without interference. Nightly, the rebels sniped at the army garrison guarding the Yateras waterworks, which supplies the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo...