Word: guerillas
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...severely dismayed at the new grape voting options available to students. The time frame [to educate voters is now] so small that I fear both groups will have to resort to 'guerilla' publicity tactics to publicize their views on the new choices," she said. "This...sets the stage for an uninformed vote...
...University Hall, has been arrested in Mexico City for alleged revolutionary activities. Mexican police charge that he is a member of the Movimiento de Accion Revolucionario, a group allegedly responsible for a series of bank robberies. Later allegations link him to the Comando Armando del Peuble, a Marxist urban guerilla group. Authorities do not level a specific charge. Under Mexican law, Hyland may be held in prison for as long as a year before charges are brought...
...Colombia and Mexico, hundreds of leftist candidates, some former guerillas who laid down their weapons under an amnesty, have been assassinated by these right-wing paramilitary groups. The media in the United States always preach that these guerilla armies should try democracy and electoral politics and then when they do, they get slaughtered. Talk about the evil empire...
...very clear, he will fire anyone on the spot who's responsible for that." At the same time, though, McCurry said the White House had no evidence at this point thatCIA or other agency officialshad withheld information on the murders. The victims were an American innkeeper and a Guatemalan guerilla whose American wife, Jennifer Harbury, ended a 12-day hunger strike outside the White House Thursday night...
After days of hunting Zapatista rebels in the southern Chiapas state, Mexican officials declared that "order and legality have been re-established in the region." If so, it has come about in a most brutal fashion. TIME Mexico City bureau chief Laura Lopez reports from Chiapas that as guerilla leaders have taken refuge in the jungle, the Mexican military has cut off virtually all their supply lines. Government tanks and transports have poured into dozens of villages, frightening thousands of people who had secretly fed and supported the Zapatistas into fleeing into the jungle. Lopez reports: "They...