Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last the Paris government began to speak openly of "insurrection against the state." But even in this desperate hour, Pflimlin was careful to emphasize that he applied the word "rebel" only to the Corsicans and not to their infinitely more powerful sponsors in Algiers. The clear implication: Pflimlin was convinced that, no matter how great the provocation, he could not try to bring Algiers to heel by force. And since there was no apparent hope of bringing Algiers to heel any other way, the likelihood was that in the end the Fourth Republic would be obliged to capitulate...
...Maronite Roman Catholic sect, with all the claims upon U.S. good will of a stoutly pro-Western leader who has led his little country from its Swiss-modeled neutrality at the heart of the Arab world to all-out espousal of the Eisenhower Doctrine. On the other were the rebel politicians, some of them professional Moslems who have been photographed in the forefront of practically every Arab nationalist gathering that Nasser has assembled over the last few years in Cairo. In between was Lebanon's little army, largely Christian-officered, shirking any showdown for fear that pressing any outcome...
Second Term. After quelling last week's only big outburst of street fighting (20 dead) in Tripoli, the army left the road open so that the leader of the Tripoli rebels could motor unmolested for coffee and peace talks with Chief of Staff Brigadier General Fuad Shehab in Beirut. But efforts to bring the warring parties to compromise came to nothing. U.S. weapons kept arriving for Chamoun's security forces, and rebel bombs kept exploding in Beirut's marketplaces, to keep shops shut and the general strike going...
From his trenched and barricaded stronghold in Beirut's Moslem quarter, ex-Premier Saeb Salam, a rebel in a yellow sport shirt, asserted that his followers were only Lebanese waging a Lebanese feud against a ''tyrant" President who planned to use the two-thirds parliamentary majority he won in last year's "rigged" elections to change the constitution so that he could stand for re-election when his six-year term expires in September...
...this point of deadlock. TIME Correspondent Denis Fodor taxied up into the mountains to call on Rebel Leader Kamal Jumblatt, 39, hereditary chieftain of the Druses, the fiercely dissident Moslem sect who farm and feud along Lebanon's eastern border. Reported Fodor...