Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cuba. Forty-seven Americans-30 sailors and marines, 17 civilians, most of them sugar and nickel company employees -were rounded up in eastern Cuba and herded into the mountains by rebel guerrillas headed by Raúl Castro, left-wing brother of Cuba's Rebel Boss Fidel Castro (see HEMISPHERE). U.S. Consul in Santiago de Cuba Park Wollam and Vice Consul Robert Wiecha jeeped into the hills, talked with rebel leaders, got a promise that Americans would be let go, set up a Navy helicopter lift that began hauling out the prisoners a handful at a time...
...usual, the army did not follow up its advantage. At the height of the Tripoli barrage, Rebel Leader Kamal Jumblatt's Druse mountaineers launched a drive that took three villages overlooking Beirut itself. There, too, the army heaved into action with just enough heavy weapons to roll the rebels back to their old lines, prompting Chamoun to observe that the military situation was "leaning toward the government...
...hills of eastern Cuba, 50 U.S. and Canadian citizens were caught-some to their own amusement-in the middle of the war between Rebel Fidel Castro and Dictator Fulgencio Batista. Their captor and genial host: Raúl Castro, Fidel's younger brother, who was mistakenly convinced that the U.S. is arming Batista. Wishing to teach Washington a lesson, young Castro decided to kidnap Americans wholesale from the neighboring sugar mills and nickel mines, and from among the personnel of the U.S. Guantanamo naval base. But he was also at pains to let his captives know that he meant...
...first hostage camp was Thomas Mosness, 22, a bespectacled Navy airman from Ames, Iowa. He had a .45-cal. pistol and gunbelt given him by his captors. He practices fast draw with the rebels, said he is 'just like one of them.' Further in the hills, I reached a main rebel headquarters, where the 26th of July [rebel] flag flies, a clerk typist pounds out war orders, and eight elderly civilian hostages live with no complaints. 'Hell, a few days won't hurt us,' said one. 'We are all rebel sympathizers anyway...
...separation decree issued by the local bishop taking the nearby village of Giglio out of the Sant'Angelo parish. To the 500-odd villagers, this parish chopping seemed intolerable. Sant'Angelo parish had become too big, insisted the bishop. Retorted Emilio Cianfarano, Sant'Angelo's rebel chief: "When you split a family, the whole family suffers." And besides, grumbled the rebels, the bishop had been swayed by Giglio donations of nearly $5,000 toward a new church. Despite the heat caused by such arguments, the villagers failed in their early-morning assault. Before nightfall, 70 more...