Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Revivalist Billy Graham and the Devil give each other no peace. Last week Graham reported on the kind of satanic guerrilla warfare that goes on behind the scenes in response to Billy's frontal attack. He was dictating some notes for a sermon on the Devil, he said, when his dictating machine caught fire. Martin Luther threw his inkpot; Billy finished the notes in longhand and hurried to Madison Square Garden-only to find that he had lost them on the way. "Something like this always happens when I preach on the Devil," said Billy. "There...
...much of their shabby belongings as they could carry, some 2,000 peasants of Cuba's rebel-held Sierra Maestra region plodded down mountain tracks last week toward lowland towns in the eastern province of Oriente. Evacuated by army order, they left behind the makings of a jungle guerrilla war-to-the-fmish between troops of President Fulgencio Batista and rebels led by Fidel Castro...
Near the Athens airport last week, a U.S. military car driven by a U.S. airman struck two pedestrians, killing 66-year-old General Stefanos Sarafis, a member of Parliament and World War II guerrilla hero, and injuring his wife Marion. On orders from U.S. Ambassador George Allen, the airman was handed over immediately to Greek authorities, who charged him with negligent manslaughter, and said he had been drinking and speeding. Apprehensive lest there be a repetition of last fortnight's riots in Taipei, Greek authorities called out police to surround the U.S. embassy and the cathedral where General Sarafis...
...regime of Ngo Dinh Diem. Less than three years ago the august Times of London, among other respectable voices, was proclaiming that "Diem has failed as Prime Minister." (The U.S. State Department was resolutely backing him.) Since then, Diem has reorganized his army, defeated and routed the French-supplied guerrilla sects that waged open war on his government and seen a freely elected National Assembly installed in Saigon. Diem's success has also attracted such neutralist-minded Asian leaders as Burma's U Nu. This week Diem will arrive in Washington to call on President Eisenhower...
...Senate considered President Eisenhower's nomination of William Joseph Brennan Jr. as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, McCarthy charged that the 50-year-old jurist had used the "privileged sanctuary" of the New Jersey Supreme Court "to conduct guerrilla warfare against anyone who would dare attempt to expose individual Communists." Patiently, his colleagues heard McCarthy out, then, with McCarthy voicing the single "no," confirmed the nomination by voice vote...