Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Putting torches to Cuban cane fields and tossing bombs in Havana, a romantic rebel band, backed by many of the country's most conservative professional men, fights Dictator Fulgencio Batista. After a year, the battle is still no better than a stalemate. For reasons, see HEMISPHERE'S The First Year of Rebellion...
Among the brambles and pine trees of Cuba's eastern Sierra Maestra range, along trails they know well, Rebel Fidel Castro, 31, and his band of 600 guerrilla fighters this week mark an anniversary. It is one year since Castro landed 81 seasick adventurers from Mexico in an invasion that drew only derision from President Fulgencio Batista, 56. The dictator is no longer derisive. Last week, in Colon Cemetery in Havana, he dropped his broad face in his hands and wept as a guard of honor buried Colonel Fermin Cowley, 47, one of his top commanders, who was gunned...
...third of his Noble lectures, Miller discussed the relationship between Christianity and history. Our tradition is a Christian tradition, he said, and "even those who live out on the rebel fringe of society are stamped with the image of Christ...
Premier M'bida, a devout Roman Catholic whose forehead is studded with blue tribal tattoos, journeyed recently into the heartland of the 120,000-member Bassa tribe, center of the spreading rebel movement. At Rebel Leader Um Myobe's birthplace, the Premier appealed to the natives: "Do not live like the Pygmies!" He urged them to come back to civilization, gave them ten days to come out of the jungle or be treated as rebels. By regrouping huts near roads, where they can be guarded, he hopes to maintain order, proceed with the slow evolution toward real...
PARIS, Nov. 29--The government of premier Felix Gaillard tonight won two votes of confidence from the French National Assembly on plans for the future of rebellious Algeria. These plans to retain French rule--with relaxations--already have been rejected by rebel leaders in the three-year-old North African...