Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...very sight of government airborne troops seems to be an unnerving thing for rebel commanders. When 200 paratroopers fluttered down into the Central Sumatran oil center of Pakanbaru, an 800-man rebel garrison took to the hills (TIME, March 24). Last week the hard-working paratroopers were shifted to Medan, the North Sumatran rubber metropolis of 520,000 people that had just been seized by some 1,500 rebels under Major Boyk Nangolan. As the grimy paratroopers in their red berets moved in, Major Nangolan hastily moved out, first scooping up 18 million rupiahs from a local bank and taking...
Monsoon Rains. Rebel sources blamed Nangolan's tame surrender of Medan on the failure of reinforcements to arrive from North and Central Sumatra. Colonel Simbolon, the rebel Foreign Minister, had set out for Medan from the rebel capital of Bukittinggi, but his 100-truck column was bogged down by monsoon rains that caused landslides and washed away bridges. Another rebel column from Tapanuli was stopped dead by a government regiment that was supposed to switch over to the rebels but did not. Djakarta gleefully announced that the remnants of Nangolan's command were cornered on the eastern shore...
First Allies. Across the mountainous spinal column of Sumatra, the rebel colonels holed up around Padang and Bukittinggi and breathed defiance. Rebel Premier Sjafruddin cried that if Sukarno "were now in our midst, he would be hanged as a war criminal." The rebel radio charged that Sukarno had been a Communist since 1955. Posters and wall signs denounced Sukarno as a murderer, an immoral man and worse. Rebel Colonel Ahmad Husein. who is apparently acting as overall military commander, broadcast somewhat superfluously that "from this moment on, we do not recognize Sukarno as President of the Indonesian Republic...
...gutting the elections, Batista made propaganda for Castro. From the start the rebel boss had denounced the "electoral farce," refused to nominate a candidate, and insisted that the only way to deal with Batista was violence. Batista also put the friendly U.S. State Department, which had been urging elections on him, in a most unhappy position. In effect, the U.S. policy had now been rejected by all sides...
...free" period, eleven Havana judges hit at the police for refusing to honor writs of habeas corpus, declaring they had "never seen the administration of Cuban justice so mocked and reviled." A fortnight ago, the judicial attack sharpened. A judge demanded that the police produce in court a captured rebel suspect; when the cops failed to do so. he boldly charged two notorious police torturers with mistreating and killing the prisoner, then ordered them arrested and held without bail. Afterward, the judge went into hiding...