Word: rebellion
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...conceived as a rebellion, it was a flop. But if it was a publicity stunt, it was imbued with idealism and conducted with a flamboyance that forced the world's attention on an issue that the world had long ignored...
Cuba's Communists were bragging. As butchers go, they are still bush league. But Castro is trying hard. To the 587 listed and the many concealed killings over the past two years, the dictatorship last week added the lives of two more Cubans, both onetime armymen accused of rebellion. At week's end six more men-American youths allegedly planning to join the growing rebellion-were tried with the death penalty demanded...
...Hanging for a Shooting. Castro's rationale for the killings is the savage rebellion against him, now approaching the flash point of open civil war. To 1,100 graduating schoolteachers, Cuba's dictator cried that the rebels in the hills hanged three captured Fidelistas (unconfirmed reports put the real figure at 20), including an 18-year-old schoolteacher. "The agents of imperialism killed him because he was young-a Negro-a teacher of the poor-because he carried a Communist card," cried Castro. "Not a single one will escape," he shouted, promising "tenacious, implacable persecution, the like...
Intermittently, Trujillo proffered bits of the carrot to go with the whip. He reminded the church that he was building a $3,500,000 basilica and a $4,000,000 Catholic University in Higüey. He also warned that the church by inciting a rebellion against him was asking for a Castro. As the pressure built up and church attendance fell off under the Trujillo scrutiny, the decision was made to bend-or at least appear...
...United States Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "The Devil Makes Sunday," a story of rebellion in an island penal colony near Australia, serves to introduce Actress Brooke Hayward, 23-year-old daughter of the late Margaret Sullavan and Leland Hayward...