Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...member of the rock-'n'-roll generation, I suppose I should be accustomed to reading about such tragedies as "Ruin Around a Rebel" [Jan. 13], but this is one tragedy I can hardly push from my mind. I feel nothing but pity for Christine Nystrom and for the wife and children of the man she killed. Why couldn't there have been the usual logical reasons for her behavior...
Some day the committee hopes to get hold of the I.U.O.E.'s longtime big boss, International President William E. Maloney, who claims that he is too ill to testify. His name came up in last week's hearings when a Local No. 138 rebel testified that Maloney, presiding over a meeting at the union's international headquarters in Washington, looked on calmly as an elderly member was kicked in the belly for protesting against his local's undemocratic management. Later, according to the witness, Maloney casually remarked that after all, it was not unusual for somebody...
...Choice. In an attempt to place both Sukarno's Djakarta government as well as the rest of his countrymen on notice, Rebel Premier-designate Sjafruddin addressed a blistering open letter to Sukarno. Sjafruddin lashed out at Sukarno's concept of "guided democracy" (TIME, March 4), said scathingly: "Guided democracy is fascism. I have become aware that the present government under Your Excellency's leadership will eventually destroy the nation . . . Believe me, the government prohibition against barter trade will not be heeded. How can people be "forbidden to eat rice obtained from barter if rice from [the government...
...democracy. The suspensions of constitutional guarantees that have deprived Cubans of freedom of speech, press, assembly and habeas corpus for virtually the entire 14 months of Fidel Castro's rebellion lapse this week, and Batista's Cabinet announced they would not be reimposed. Instead, all Cuba except rebel-ridden Oriente province is to retrieve its freedom, and even Oriente will recover one constitutional right-free assembly...
...long would Batista be able to operate without his coercive apparatus? Widely circulated Bohemia magazine announced that its next edition would contain many facts and stories suppressed under censorship. The rebels said they would try to bring off a general strike in Havana. At week's end, emboldened rebel bands seized two Havana radio stations long enough to broadcast anti-Batista recordings, forcefully pointing out what a general strike had achieved in Caracas...