Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rebel force harrying the Colomb-Béchar Express is only one of a number of Algerian guerrilla bands which have long operated in and out of neighboring Morocco and Tunisia. Last week on Algeria's eastern border, a patrol of the French Army's 26th Motorized Infantry Regiment, ambushed by a small band of Algerian guerrillas, chased its attackers 300 yards inside Tunisia. When Tunisian troops tried to intervene, the French killed six Tunisians as well as six Algerians. In response to an indignant protest from the Tunisian government, French Commander in Chief in Algeria, General Raoul...
...long career as off-and-on President and strongman of Cuba. But even as he pep-talked loyal troops at Camp Columbia, outside Havana. Batista warily shuffled guards at all military installations, held Havana cops on the alert in their barracks. Rumors were flying that the bearded young rebel, Fidel Castro, holed up in the Sierra Maestra, planned to celebrate Batista's 24th anniversary with an uprising. Next morning the revolt came, in the sugar port of Cienfuegos (pop. 99.000), Cuba's seventh city...
...peninsula in the town's harbor. They clapped pro-Batista officers in the brig and swept out through town in jeeps, carrying arms from the post arsenal. A 60-man troop of maritime police and some 200 pro-Castro civilians were waiting to join them. The rebels swept into Marti Park in the center of town, surrounded the pro-Batista national police headquarters and demanded surrender. The police refused. While two rebel navy planes circled overhead, the rebels charged, and after a vicious fight that littered the street with dead, the building fell. By noon rebels controlled the city...
Estimates of the death toll ran from 75 to 200; the dead included two navy captains and the commandant of the maritime police. The army colonel in charge of mop-up operations was wounded. Three rebel navy officers, 13 enlisted men and three maritime police were captured and flown to Havana to face a rough round of questioning on how the revolt got started. Batista's troops began a house-to-house search for a reported 2,000 guns distributed to civilians from the arsenal...
...French government trumpeted a victory, and cited it as evidence for Minister Resident Robert Lacoste's chronic boast that the Algiers revolt is in "its last quarter of an hour." But a more realistic French colonel in Algiers said ruefully. "Every time we get one rebel, we know he is immediately replaced by another...