Word: stronghold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rebel combat commanders thrown up by Algeria's 4½-year-old civil war, none was more dreaded by French and Moslems alike than Amirouche Aït Hamouda, a peddler's son from the mountainous Berber stronghold of Kabylia. Barely into his 20s when he joined the underground, sinewy, long-legged Amirouche rose swiftly to the F.L.N.'s highest field rank, full "colonel," commanded a battle-hardened force of 5,000 men that made Kabylia the country's strongest bastion of rebel power...
Sitting in Santiago de Cuba, capital of Castro's Oriente province wartime stronghold, the three-man tribunal of Castro rebels made two main points. They acknowledged that many attacked villages were legitimate military targets, since "our forces were in most of them," added that "it has not been possible to identify which of the accused on trial here were those who produced the deaths...
Goalie Andy Baxter was the defensive stronghold for St. Paul's as he turned away 35 shots, 13 of them in the first period. Captain Bob Bland had 18 saves in the Crimson nets...
...feel defeated." said Almond, "just realistic." Carefully he picked 40 legislators for a commission to frame further resistance measures. Though segregationists all, the commission's members represented a gentle but firm shift away from control by the diehards from heavily Negro South-side Virginia, long the stronghold of Byrd control of the legislature...
Castro was in Oriente province, his stronghold during two years of fighting. He talked endlessly, mainly of land redistribution that will include uncultivated U.S.-owned sugar plantations. "The powerful foreign companies that stole it from the state will scream to high heaven," he said, "but it will not do them any good." His program would rest on two principles: "The land should belong to those who work it," and "Those who have no land must have some." Shouted Castro: "We must win our economic freedom and cease being ruled by U.S. ambassadors who have been running our country...