Word: revolted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lopsided majority for a U.S. resolution to 1) condemn Red China for refusing to free 15 captured U.S. airmen, and 2) send Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold to China on a mission that eventually secured the air men's freedom. After the Soviet Union crushed the Hungarian revolt in 1956, Lodge mustered 55 votes for condemnation, even though the British-French-Israeli invasion of Egypt had badly blurred the issue...
...majority. Beirut's Independent Raymond Edde polled a surprising ten votes from Lebanese Christians who had begun to suspect that Chehab's election now would amount to a rebel victory. Edde, respected son of a former President, had himself proposed Chehab's name early in the revolt, but insisted that his own withdrawal now would be "to surrender our democracy to the Sixth Fleet." On the second ballot, with only a simple majority now required, Chehab got 48 votes and was elected. Suddenly the crowded parliament chamber tensed to the muffled sound of a nearby heavy explosion...
...troop transports over their territory, though bankers and businessmen cheered the ability of the U.S. to move swiftly and decisively in the Middle East. But when United Press International's President Frank H. Bartholomew wrote after a visit to Switzerland: "Diplomats and counterintelligence agents say the Iraqi revolt 'was born in Bern,' " government and press alike went through the roof of the Alps. Bartholomew reported estimates that the Reds disbursed $1,000,000 a week to Western European agents through Switzerland, much of the money coming from traffic in drugs...
Covering the low-pressure revolt back in Beirut, an army of 200 sport-shirted newsmen found that the Lebanese rebels were accessible through a phone call from the Hotel St. Georges bar. Rebel headquarters was just a short cab ride away and any correspondent could drop past for tea with Rebel Leader Saeb Salam...
FLASHES IN THE NIGHT, edited by William Juhasz and Abraham Rothberg (87 pp.; Random House; $2.50), is a collection of seven short stories by Hungarian writers. Some of the authors took part in the recent revolt and wound up in jail. Some, not all, were Communist Party members, and some stood high in the esteem of their masters. Yet all are aware, in varying degrees, that they and their countrymen are living falsely because they are not living freely. Not all of these stories are good and no one of them is first rate, yet they are pathetically moving because...