Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Great Honor." It all began last fall when Bigeard's men captured an Algerian terrorist named Zerrouk, and persuaded him to change sides. Still outwardly a rebel, Zerrouk slipped back into the casbah as Bigeard's chief informer. Thanks to him, one terrorist leader after another fell into French hands, until Zerrouk found himself Terrorist No. 2, outranked only by the wily and elusive Yacef Saadi. Communicating only through a network of F.L.N. intermediaries and "letterboxes," Zerrouk (in messages dictated by Bigeard) described his own feats so glowingly that Saadi ordered him to be more cautious...
Government troops at dawn scrambled from transports into lifeboats and landing craft, surged onto the beaches north of Padang, the rebel nerve center. A spearhead of Indonesian marines had already pushed inland against light resistance. At the Padang airfield, eight miles north of town, government planes strafed gun positions while 200 paratroopers drifted down at the field's edge. Within twelve hours, the rebel defenders were in flight along the road to Bukittinggi, 58 miles away, and Padang was firmly in the control of Djakarta's Colonel Achmad Jani, who had learned his lessons well...
Failing it was. The rebels' vaunted, 5,000-man Havana underground stayed mostly underground; at week's end one disgruntled group of rebel commanders denounced Castro's Havana lieutenant, Faustino Pérez, 35, as a "traitor" who refused to order the terrorist attack that was vital to make the strike work...
...Rebel Country. At the other end of the island, in Santiago, the strike, though more effective, was suppressed with equal resolution and bloodshed; 38 were killed. But even as the strike was failing, Castro's irregulars in the rugged Sierra Maestra were fighting on. Nipping down to El Cobre the day after the frustrated strike, Castro men grabbed the town, ranged the streets, and upon pulling out touched off the 30-ton dynamite stock of a construction-supply company. The thunderous explosion shattered windows in Santiago ten miles away...
Once, during an 80-day rebellion in 1925, a young gaucho leader named Oswaldo Aranha saved the town of Itaqui for the government by fighting off a rebel leader named Luis Carlos Prestes. Aranha spent the next year recuperating from a bullet-shattered leg, then went on to become a President-maker, a Cabinet minister for 12 years; he spent four distinguished years in Washington as Ambassador to the U.S., served once as U.N. General Assembly president. Rebel Prestes went on to become chief of Brazil's Communist Party, the hemisphere's biggest. Last week, while thousands watched...