Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After a rebel "council of war," Beirut Insurgent Leader Saeb Salam, ex-Prime Minister and graduate of the American University of Beirut, issued a ringing pronunciamento to his men: "Repulse the enemy with your breasts! Fight them with your spears! Kill them with your bullets!" Salam promised a fight in "every block, every house, every room...
...General Shawkat Shukayr, former Syrian army chief, was directing Rebel Leader Kamal Jumblatt's military operations...
...landed in Jordan. Taking the offensive, Lodge endorsed the British decision, went on to regret the Swedish position. "When the patient is sick," he said, "is no time for the doctor to leave." He insisted that the U.N. observers had not been able to get behind all the rebel lines, cited U.S. evidence of infiltration, added that the shrill incitements of Cairo newspapers and radio alone constituted interference. "Is the United Nations to condone indirect aggression in plain clothes from outside a country?" If it cannot deal with such aggression, said Lodge, leaning forward intently, "the United Nations will break...
Declared the rebel radio: "We have decided to form an Iraqi republic which adheres to full Arab unity and pray God to help us all." Shrilled another broadcast: "Today is a day to kill and be killed. Down with imperialist agents. Compatriots, now we can speak and breathe." Another broadcast gave the first indication that at least some supporters of the King were fighting back. "Some of our compatriots are firing on us," reported the rebel radio announcer in almost disbelieving tones. By midafternoon, with resistance not ended, the radio was urging Iraqi womanhood to stand by "your free brothers...
...scoring of motion pictures in Hollywood, as well as most other commercial music, last week lost control of film scoring to an upstart splinter group headed by a studio trumpet player. In an election sponsored by the National Labor Relations Board. Hollywood's film musicians chose the rebel Musicians Guild of America as their bargaining agent, by a vote...