Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...increases in productivity. And business must make its profits of such a scale that where they can still continue to invest money they are not robbing the public. Because if they do, just as sure as you are a foot high, one day the American consumer is going to rebel. He is going to rebel in a big way, and there will be real trouble...
President Chamoun's election, and during the Suez crisis he held office briefly again as Chamoun's Defense Minister. Throughout this year's fighting, he has invited rebel leaders to tea, kept their supply lines open, consulted them regularly by telephone. But he would not order army troops to attack rebels, despite heaviest pressure from the palace and Western embassies, presumably because he wanted to preserve his army's scrupulous political neutrality. When the Marines landed, Chehab felt Chamoun had betrayed him by inviting them without consulting him. He opposed the landing, and at first refused...
...indefinitely, U.S. five-star Ambassador Robert Murphy, Ike's special envoy, performed his good offices among the warring factions with characteristically persuasive art (and then tactfully left town on polling day). All knew, and had long known, that there was only one possible figure on whom government and rebel forces alike could agree. Early in the week Patriarch Paul Meouchi of the Maronite Roman Catholic Church helped persuade Army Chief Fuad Chehab that...
Army Salute. Voting began without debate. On the first ballot, with the rebels as well as most of Chamoun's men voting solidly for him. General Chehab received 42 votes-just two short of the necessary two-thirds majority. Beirut's Independent Raymond Edde polled a surprising ten votes from Lebanese Christians who had begun to suspect that Chehab's election now would amount to a rebel victory. Edde, respected son of a former President, had himself proposed Chehab's name early in the revolt, but insisted that his own withdrawal now would be "to surrender...
...first time since post-Spanish-American War days that U.S. troops had been ordered into Cuban territory, but the Navy thought it had no choice. Early in June, raiders from the rebel army of Fidel Castro burned the barracks of Cuban guards at the pumping station, jeopardized the water without which most of the 6,000 U.S. citizens on the base would have to move out in 24 hours. Base Commander Rear Admiral Robert Ellis conferred with U.S. Ambassador Earl E.T. Smith, who later talked with Cuban Minister of State Gonzalo Güell. It was agreed that if Cuba...