Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...remaining 13 were miraculously spared by hiding when, half an hour later, nine armed guerrilla soldiers arrived. "It's only because I know a terrorist when I see one that I'm still alive," recalled Anthony Hill, 39, an army reservist. He hid in the bush. At first the guerrillas, clad in jungle green uniforms, seemed friendly, promising help. But then they herded together the ten people at the wreckage, robbed them of their valuables, and finally cut them down with automatic weapons fire. From another hiding place, businessman Hans Hansen and his wife Diana could hear...
...Smith's Rhodesian Front party, Peech had organized several meetings with Macheke's tribesmen and informally had tried to work out a cease-fire with black national guerrillas in the district. Last week Tim Peech had become another grim statistic in Rhodesia's bloody civil war. While working the bush on one of his peace missions, he was ambushed and clubbed to death by the guerrillas with whom he had sought dialogue. Peech, who is survived by his American wife, Michela, a son and daughter, was the 204th white and the 2,191st civilian to die in Rhodesia since...
Smith had relied on the promises of his three black colleagues in Rhodesia's interim government that they could persuade large numbers of guerrillas to defect, thereby taking the sting out of the debilitating bush war. Instead, guerrilla attacks have increased in strength and boldness. Today, Rhodesia's main highways, and not just back-country roads, are perilous for convoys. A few months ago, isolated farms, missions and villages were the main targets for guerrillas belonging to the Patriotic Front. Salisbury's outskirts are checkered with new shanty towns, as blacks flee tribal lands for the safety of the city...
...aimed at new targets. Both black and white moderates have become priority victims?a tactic apparently intended to shatter the country's already sagging morale. In one of the most gruesome of such recent terrorist incidents, 39 black moderates of Sithole's faction who had been sent into the bush to convince dissidents that the transition was working were captured and executed; their bodies were then laid out by the guerrillas in a grisly line at the side of the road as a warning to local tribespeople. Two months ago, four other Sithole peace envoys were shot dead...
Savimbi's increasing success in the bush has forced Neto to launch a major offensive against him, using both M.P.L.A. and Cuban troops. Despite the government's superior firepower the offensive has been going poorly. There is dissension between the two attacking groups: the Angolans sneeringly call the Cubans "town dwellers" who are afraid to go into the bush, particularly at night. Angolan prisoners captured by UNITA tell of M.P.L.A. mutinies and heavy casualties among the Cubans...