Word: redoubt
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With increasingly totalitarian methods, the white leaders of South Africa are building a southern redoubt for a last-ditch stand against black nationalism on their bottom tip of the continent. Last week the government of Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd proposed new legislation that will snuff out basic freedoms of all South Africans, black and white...
...Impressed by a classic miscalculation of U.S. intelligence, both Ike and Bradley feared that German armies would form a "National Redoubt" in the all-but-impenetrable Alpine massif, and hoped to wipe out resistance in the area before the stronghold could be manned. "Not until after the campaign ended," Bradley wrote later, "were we to learn that this Redoubt existed largely in the imaginations of a few fanatic Nazis...
...pretty princedom of Monaco, the center of Europe's playboy country, has now become the central redoubt of Protestant evangelism. On a mountain overlooking the Mediterranean, a Detroit-born Baptist minister and a staff of 17 are beaming a constant stream of religious broadcasts over five giant "curtain antennas" that reach across Asia to the Pacific. Broadcasts in the other direction-to Spain-carry on to Latin America. The Gospel message is carried in Russian, Spanish, Latvian, Hebrew, Arabic, Swedish, Portuguese, French, English, Italian and German. Within three months, Armenian, Georgian and Uzbek will be added; within a year...
...settlement in the Andean backlands 25 miles outside Bogotá. The men carried leaflets: "Viva the organized masses!" A Red caudillo, Víctor Julio Merchán, delivered a welcoming harangue, and the stubble-bearded troop responded with a clenched-fist salute. From an equally isolated redoubt not far to the east, a second Red band, commanded by Juan de la Cruz Varela, peddled at gunpoint 1 peso coupons bearing Lenin's picture and the appeal: "For a great Communist Party...
...never cracked down hard on it. Not until five months before Batista fell did the Communists abandon their scornful attitude toward the "bourgeois romantic," Rebel Castro, and proffer a united front. Rodríguez, youngest of the top P.S.P. triumvirate, went quietly into Castro's Sierra Maestra redoubt and began talking with leading rebels. To Castro, Rodríguez promised Red support with no strings attached. Rodríguez reportedly got the rank of captain in the rebel army and grew the standard beard, which he continues to wear...