Word: guerilla
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THIS FALL HAS not been easy for President Bok, but it might've been tougher. The most vocal protest on campus from non-minority students has centered on rather parochial issues. In fact, a student group named GUERILLA achieved its most effective demonstration early in exam period, when it organized a "study-in" at Lamont, managing within a few days to gain an all-night study area--the Greenhouse Cafe...
...underestimates troop requirements, estimates of casualty rates, and the time and geographic scope of required engagement. Politico-military analysts downplay the potential for regionalization of armed conflict in the isthmus. In particular they underestimate the implications of the Nicaraguan and Cuban commitment to provide military support to Salvadorean guerilla forces in the event of continued escalation of US involvement. No serious consideration appears to have been given to global security implications of an escalated regional conflict involving US, Cuban, Nicaraguan, Venezuelan and other participants...
...documented expansion of military capabilities of the opposition forces, including their ability to recruit and organize large contingents of displaced peasants, and to cause heavy casualties among government forces, makes it highly unlikely that a short term military defeat of the guerilla forces might be achieved...
...Redcoats had to come through Cambridge on their way home as well, except now they ran instead of marching, terrified by the guerilla tactics of the thousands of Americans who kept on their heels. Three Cambridge men were killed in one engagement on the retreat--Moses Richardson, William Marcy and John Hicks were buried in a common grave in the churchyard, a funeral that, as one chronicler put it, "brought the war to our doors...
...with Aquino, hoping the dissident's release would have a moderating influence among opposition groups in the U.S. and in the Philippines. If anything, though, Marcos has miscalculated: Aquino has embarked on a full speaking tour to present himself as a reasonable alternative in the U.S., and while urban guerilla forces in the Philippines deny that Aquino is masterminding their bombing campaign, they have proclaimed him a rallying point for the Filipino people...