Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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RIFLE in hand, a Cuban army sentry stopped the car carrying TIME Contributing Editor Sam Halper toward the rebel-held Sierra Maestra, peered inside, searched the trunk. Said Halper: "I put on an act of lighting a cigar, said nothing, and waved to the soldiers as we went on." Closer to the mountains, Halper hid in a farmhouse while a sugar-cane train chuffed by, guarded by soldiers riding the cowcatcher. In the foothills he changed to a rebel jeep for the rough ride to Fidel Castro's headquarters. Halper spent three days with Castro and his ragged, fanatic...
Mohammed's expansion is accompanied by an increasing disenchantment with the French. The palace announced last week that at long last the King had become "reconciled" to Abd el Krim, the fanatically anti-French Moroccan rebel of the 1921-26 Rif wars, who until now has preferred to live in exile in Egypt rather than to bow to a King he insisted was nothing more than a French puppet. Abd el Krim, now a withered 76, will henceforth receive a pension from the Moroccan government for his past "inestimable services...
...which Castro must crack to win Cuba, every available police prowl car roamed the streets, and few citizens ventured out after dark. The 630-room Habana Hilton, opened with fanfare last month, had just 44 guests. General Pilar Garcia, Havana's tough new police chief, rounded up suspected rebel sympathizers by the dozens, while hundreds more went into hiding at the homes of friends and relatives...
...Castro sticks to his schedule, the normal round of pre-Easter holy days and holidays will give him a natural assist in closing down the country. The rebel chieftain has long delayed his big move in the hope of winning over enough of organized labor, still officially pro-Batista, to ensure the strike's success. But now he faces another problem: if he postpones the big push again, his Havana network, which must lead the strike, may be fatally weakened by mass arrests and killings...
Typical of correspondents' search for the war was the trip last week of LIFE Photographer John Dominis, the Associated Press's John Griffin, and Magnum Photographer Marc Riboud. Armed with a letter from rebel headquarters giving them passage to the front, the trio set out in a wayward bus named Picnic. Stumbling across a battle convoy, they produced the letter-only to learn that they were among government troops...