Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Britain's 30-day war in the Oman desert sputtered to an end last week with the destruction of the last remaining mud-walled rebel forts, and the flight into the mountains of the rebel Imam of Oman himself, his rascally brother Talib and their only remaining ally of any note, one Sheikh Suleiman bin Himyar, who styles himself "Lord of the Green Mountains." The rest of the Imam's tatterdemalion forces fled off to fend for themselves. Total casualties among the forces of the British and the Sultan of Muscat and Oman since the counteroffensive began...
...Bahrein, British army spokesmen quoted captured Omani rebel troops as saying that 400 of the Imam's recruits had been trained for seven months near Dammam in Saudi Arabia. British officers on the spot identified captured rebel grenades as U.S.-made, implied strongly that they, like the recruits, came from Saudi Arabia. Also picked up in the rubble: two British naval cannon dated 1646. The U.S.-made grenades, along with the rebel prisoners' admission that they were trained in Saudi Arabia, may be used to counter Arab charges of "aggression" by Britain if the Arabs...
...French were not the only salesmen on the road. Two Algerian rebel leaders showed up in neutral Stockholm. Rebel Leader Ferhat Abbas, in Montevideo, announced: "We have decided to knock at all Western doors, even of the United States. But if our appeals are not crowned with success, we will go to Moscow to embrace the serpent itself, ready for anything that will obtain liberty, just like Morocco and Tunisia...
...church, Father Jacques himself scrounged the bricks, helped to build it. He provided his people with free movies, medicine, scholarships, as well as advice and comfort. When French guns were aimed at Giadinh during the bloody battle for Saigon in 1946, it was Jacques Cua who crept through the rebel lines to persuade the commanding French general to send food and money to the parish instead of bombs and bullets...
Hotheaded partisans of Rebel Fidel Castro tried to close down the Cuban economy last week, and quickly discovered that well-paid workers do not become ardent revolutionaries. For six days, workers in pro-rebel Santiago de Cuba held firmly to their spontaneous general strike (TIME, Aug. 12). then gradually drifted back to their jobs. Most Havana workers, making near-record wages, ignored the call. Going up were four new skyscraper hotels. A new superhighway was snaking west from the city along the sea front, and underneath Havana Bay, a 20-lane tunnel needed only five more months of work before...