Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Back to the Beach. For all practical political purposes, Rockefeller is finished as a presidential contender-not because he is a loser, but because he no longer has any stomach for the fight. He even seemed disdainful of the battle. As he confided to an aide with all too evident relief after the Washington breakfast: "I never really wanted this anyway." Hours after his withdrawal, Nelson Rockefeller emplaned for a brief vacation at Laurance Rockefeller's hotel on Puerto Rico's Dorado Beach. It was at that opulent retreat, in November 1967, that New York's Governor...
...policy of Czechoslovakia to the needs of the Soviet Union and mercilessly purged "revisionists." Ill suited by training and temperament for any sort of liberalization, he later stalled on economic reforms and took back some of -the privileges that he had granted the writers-thus setting off the intraparty fight that brought in Dubcek...
...oncoming Israelis. Inside, some 200 guerrillas stayed on to defend the town. Outnumbered and outgunned, 110 perished in a series of sharp house-to-house firefights; another 100 Arabs were taken prisoner. Frustrated in their hopes of entrapping the entire force, the Israelis quickly pulled out, but had to fight their way back to Israeli territory...
...back room of a stucco house in the hills of Amman, a grave young Palestinian university student squatted on the floor and told eleven friends that he had just joined a guerrilla unit to fight the Israelis. "Any age, any size, either sex," he said. "It makes no difference. They are on my land, and I shall kill them." In his shell shattered villa overlooking the River Jordan, Citrus Grower Raouf Halabi, 50, a graduate of Beirut's American University, reported proudly that his riverfront groves have become a nightly jumping-off place for raiding parties into Israel...
Asifa's storm troopers have little in common with the illiterate and ill-equipped irregulars who used to sneak into Israel. Roughly half of them are college graduates or students, and all are rotated regularly in and out their civilian jobs, a practice that makes guerrilla fight ing more attractive and assures Asifa penetration into all levels of civilian life. They undergo formal guerrilla train mg at bases such as the Karamah refugee camp, which was the mam target of last week's Israeli assault. To main tain a semblance of secrecy, Asifa is organized into c. like...