Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...companies of Cameron Highlanders were airlifted from Kenya to Persian Gulf bases, two British frigates slipped into the Sultan's coastal waters and four R.A.F. jet fighters roared up from a Persian Gulf sandstrip to fire rockets and cannon into the mud-brick-walled rebel citadels in the mountains of Oman. Cairo's press and radio filled the air with shouts about "a British attack on Arab nationalism." Actually it was not much of a war; only the current state of Middle East nerves made it front-page news...
...rebels were ready to talk. According to Paris, the young French diplomat met three rebel leaders: Mohammed Yazid, the FLN's representative at the U.N., Abane Ramdane, who reportedly runs the FLN military operation, and Dr. Lamine-Debaghine, FLN political leader. They reportedly assured Goëau-Brissonnière that they did not want the Algerian conflict to be "internationalized" (as may happen when the Algerian problem comes before the U.N. General Assembly in September), knowing that for years to come Algeria must live in some kind of economic and political relationship to France. Goëau-Brissonni...
...Oriente, set up headquarters in the Sierra Maestra. Castro knows that he cannot win merely by avoiding capture. But he does want to become a symbol of opposition that will attract a majority of Cubans and encourage at least part of Batista's army to defect to the rebel side...
...church's "biggest single blot," the new ways are spreading. In Havana, Manuel Cardinal Arteaga has avoided taking sides, but Archbishop Enrique Pérez Serantes of Santiago specifically condemned government violence in a pastoral letter last month. Most of the priests in Oriente province openly sympathize with Rebel Leader Castro. In Venezuela the leading Catholic prelate, Caracas Archbishop Rafael Arias, dared to condemn the stern dictatorship of Marcos Perón Jimónez for the inequitable distribution of the country's great wealth...
...told, the book is the work of a rebel against both the limp cliches of romance and the inverse pieties of atheism...