Word: antigovernmental
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In the inflation-ridden capital, where an average worker's monthly wages will buy enough food for just three days, the only cheap commodity is life itself. In March, antigovernment guerrillas ambushed a succession of army convoys and police stations, slaying 120 soldiers and police. The army responded with...
Most of the 54 freed prisoners were dangerous criminals, according to Islamabad authorities. Nineteen were accused of murder or attempted murder. Revealingly, six had been charged with smuggling Soviet-made arms into Pakistan. Two had been convicted as Soviet spies and sentenced to 14 years. Eight others were charged with...
President Duarte boasted that the guerrilla offensive had been contained "without the use of a single American bullet." Nevertheless, in response to the guerrilla offensive, the U.S. discarded earlier misgivings and rushed to El Salvador's assistance with $10 million in military aid. By way of justification, U.S. diplomats...
The senior revolutionary leader of the F.M.L.N., the joint military command of the five major antigovernment guerrilla groups, is Salvador Cayetano Carpio, 61, who rose through trade union ranks to become secretary-general of the Salvadoran Communist Party. In 1970 he broke away to pursue armed revolution. He formed the...
The pressure rose again the following day when TASS, the official Soviet news agency, warned that "counterrevolutionary groups" within Solidarity were turning to "open confrontation" with the Polish Communist Party and with factory and office administrators. At the Iskra ball bearing and spark plug factory in Kielce, TASS charged, workers...