Word: revolted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early in October Moscow sent Hungary's Premier Andras Hegedus and Party Secretary Erno Gero on a visit to Tito's Yugoslavia, and the world concluded that Kremlin concessions to Hungary were in the wind. But several days before the revolt broke out, says the U.N. report, ponton bridges were assembled by the Russian army at Zahony on the Hungarian-Soviet frontier. And in neighboring Rumania, Soviet officers on leave and reserve officers speaking Hungarian were recalled to their units...
Fashion's Changes. Watered down as it was, Mao's speech remained a cry of warning against the danger of the Marxist rigidity that led to revolt in Hungary. Above all, it made clear that what Mao called the "contradictions" in Chinese Communist society were actually symptoms of widespread disaffection. Items...
...years older than Nuri, and an affable, intelligent and wealthy politico, Ali Jawdat, 70, is Nuri's longtime comrade in arms. Like Nuri, he was trained by the Turks in the Ottoman military college at Istanbul, fought in the Camel Corps against the Turks in the Arab revolt in World War I. He has been Premier twice before (in 1934 and 1949). One of his sons is a close friend of young King Feisal, and helps him care for his sports cars; the other is Iraqi agent for Westinghouse air conditioners...
...hideout last month to smash an army garrison. President Fulgencio Batista launched a "campaign of extermination." Since then, the rebel band has not been sighted, let alone exterminated. Last week Batista sent a new field commander, Colonel Pedro A. Barrera Perez, to put an end to the six-month revolt...
...High Road. Despite an army announcement that it planned to mop up Castro's revolt within a week, Batista's troops moved with a caution bordering on ineffectiveness. Army troops patrolled the main roads leading into the mountains, but footpaths remained open. Castro's couriers walked in and out of Santiago de Cuba, capital of Oriente, without interference...