Word: revoltingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kiss for the Girls. The Reds turned for help to President Sukarno, whom they had strongly supported-and tried to make their captive-when the Sumatra colonels began their 1958 right-wing revolt in the Outer Islands. Two years ago, dissatisfied with the role of Indonesia's three leading non-Communist parties, Sukarno had called for Communist participation in the government because "a horse can't stand on three legs." Now an officer boasts that the army "will provide the fourth...
BEIRUT, Lebanon, March 10--The Iraqi government of Premier Kassem claimed today it had crushed the revolt in northern Iraq but other reports said the rebellion was still alive. Some said rebels are fighting their way toward the Syrian border...
Both sides--government and rebel--claimed victories in rival propaganda broadcasts from stations 200-odd miles apart. There was no independent confirmation of any victory claims. Late tonight the government radio added a new twist--it began to ignore the revolt entirely...
...from office. To put a squeeze on Duvalier, Castro has given friendly refuge to Duvalier's archenemy, Planter Louis Dejoie, the defeated candidate in Haiti's mulatto-v.-black presidential elections in 1957. Dejoie confers daily with top rebel leaders, runs a program of incitement to revolt three nights a.week in French and Creole over Radio Progreso, a 5,000-watt Havana station. Fortnight ago, Dejoie announced a unity pact with rabble-rousing ex-President Daniel Fignole, a New York-based exile, and Dr. Clement Jumelle, who is hiding out in Haiti...
Ominous 13. The Algiers colonels' revolt of last May was dramatic proof of the disaffection that 14 years of losing colonial wars in Indo-China and North Africa had engendered in French professional officers. Just how deep that disaffection went is now the talk of Paris as the result of a new book by two top French newsmen, the brothers Serge and Merry Bromberger, who call the Algiers uprising a fusion of 13 distinct conspiracies ("the 13 plots...