Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Algiers, for nearly a week, the right-wing press had been working on the emotions of the city's French population by preaching against Pflimlin as an apostle of "abandonment," because he was known to favor negotiations with the rebel Algerian National Liberation Front. Then came the explosive word that Algerians had executed three French prisoners in reprisal for the execution of three rebels in Algiers' jail. Driven by uncontrollable fury, thousands of colons surged into the streets of Algiers shouting "The army to power!" and "Vive De Gaulle!" (see below). They were quieted only when General Massu...
First, as a kind of warmup, on rabble-rousers' charges that the U.S. was plotting to turn Algeria over to the rebel F.L.N.,* crowds broke down the doors of the USIA offices on Rue Michelet and scattered books and periodicals in the street. Then, their ranks grown to 30,000, they jammed the main square for a ceremonial wreath-laying at the war memorial. General Raoul Salan, once commander in Indo-China and now commander in chief of the 500,000 French troops in Algeria, and tall, leathery General Jacques Massu, the paratroop commander, drove...
...week's end more and more shopkeepers began raising their shutters, and in the countryside rival tribesmen took up arms to help fight the rebel Druses. The government, growing bolder, made so many arrests that movie houses had to be commandeered for auxiliary jails. Some 12,000 Syrians were transported to the border and dumped into Syria. But the Chamoun government, still unable to assert authority in many places, had yet to round up any opposition leaders, and some observers began to say that the crisis might just peter out in victory for nobody, but at the cost...
Through its in years, the Pennsylvania Railroad has never been successfully challenged by a rebel stockholder or failed to pay an annual cash dividend. Last week both those possibilities cornered the Pennsy...
...President Spyros P. Skouras, formed an independent company three years ago with his brother, Spyros S. Skouras, 34. CJ Sam Goldwyn Jr., 31, son of Old Guard Cinemogul Samuel Goldwyn, 73, has independently produced Man with the Gun, The Shark fighters, and the soon-to-be-released The Proud Rebel. ¶ Charles Chaplin Jr., 32, and his nine-months-younger brother Sydney appeared with their father in Limelight, have duckwalked away on their own: Sydney plays opposite Judy Holliday in Broadway's Bells Are Ringing; Charles Jr. is a suspicious cop in MGM's High School Confidential. Also...