Word: guerilla
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...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...
Bork and D'Elia arrived in the border city of Peshawar. Pakistan February 28, where they made contact with members of the "Moderate Alliance," a major guerilla coalition...
They arrived at a guerilla outpost just as a force of 10,000 Soviet and Afghani government troops entered the area in an attempt to relieve a garrison that had been besieged by the mujahedeen for two years...
...could boast of over four thousand executions of Resistance fighters, not to mention the deportation of close to eight thousand Jews, shipped away to certain death in the Eastern European concentration camps. But Barbie's most infamous achievement was the 1943 arrest, torture and murder of the daring underground guerilla a leader, Jean Moulin. That outrage above all others came to symbolize the Nazi brand of terror, as Moulin emerged from his last harrowing session with Barbie, an eyewitness recalled that "he had been beaten terribly, he was all bruises, a leg was sort of trailing behind...