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...headlines were the two generals: blond, flint-eyed Maurice Challe, 55, onetime commander of the French army in Algeria, and balding, tight-lipped Andre Zeller, 63. In an ornate, oak-paneled courtroom of the ancient Palais de Justice, both went on trial for leading the short-lived April rebellion against France and Charles de Gaulle...
...office in a dirt-floored converted bar in Leopoldville, Angola Rebellion Leader Holden Roberto happily waved a grimy letter on blue airmail paper. The exhausted courier who carried it over the border was already fast asleep in one corner. The letter, said Roberto, reported that rebel operations were now spreading southward in Angola...
...President to use "any means" to suppress "insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination or conspiracy" if state officials are unable or unwilling to offer citizens the protection of the law. The section has been used only three times. During the Reconstruction era, Ulysses S. Grant declared several counties in rebellion (notably in South Carolina), employed federal troops to arrest defiant Klansmen. In 1895 Grover Cleveland invoked the section to crush a strike against the Pullman Co. that had halted Midwestern railroad traffic. Four years ago, President Eisenhower used 333 to send the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock. Attorney General Kennedy...
...ranks of the politically able, thinned by assassination, limit the possibilities somewhat; but anything from invasion by Cubans to further repression by the Trujillo dynasty might happen. Figurehead president and without the ruthlessness of Trujillo, his playboy son will probably not be able to resist the wave of rebellion which has been sweeping Latin American dictatorships...
...Reform & Rebellion. When word came of revolt in the American Colonies, the idealistic La Fayette got himself appointed a major general in the Revolutionary forces and, without bothering to send word to the pregnant Adrienne, set sail to bring freedom to North America. Five years later, he returned a hero, and Adrienne was so overcome that she fainted at their reunion. Scarcely pausing to bring her round, he eagerly went into politics, called for a constitutional monarchy, and hung the U.S. Bill of Rights on his wall with an empty frame beside it, explaining to visitors: "It is intended...