Word: guerilla
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Despite guerilla intimidation and widespread confusion over election rules, well over a million Salvadorans went to the polls to choose their President...
...desire for a stamped identity card simply can't explain why so many Salvadorans would go so far and wait so long to vote when simple excuses--guerilla intimidation or bureaucratice confusion--could always explain an abstention. And most importantly, the voters had a clear choice: they could pick either the murderous reactionary D'Abuisson or the conservative Guerrero and moderate Duarte...
...Vietnam ment and the escalation of the Vietnam count of the counterculture which grew in the late '60s. He sees fundamental flaws there as well. Students for a Democratic Socity, the Yippies, the Black Panthers--all went through periods of romance with Third World revolutionism, and then turned to guerilla tactics, reinforcing their isolation from the American mainstream...
...order to co-operate with the South African army in fighting the Cuban backed Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola. [The American Congress had just outlawed direct U.S. involvement.] The Israelis temporised, reluctant to do this. Eventually, however, they sent South Africa some military instructors specializing in anti-guerilla warfare, plus equipment designed for the same purpose. In return, the Israelis took Mr. Kissinger's request as the green light for an Israeli-South African partnership...
Borge is a leader of the Sandinista movement which gained control of the Nicaraguan government in 1979 after deposing U.S. backed Anastasio Somoza. He first took part in guerilla activities in 1958, and spent nine months in prison, in 1977 and 1978. Since the revolution, Borge has played a major role in the Socialist government...