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They grabbed several screaming (collaborating) students from their dinner places, blasted them with cap pistols, left them to writhe in a "guerilla-theatre" death agony, and then ran around the dining hall tossing leaflets onto tables. COCA then announced themselves and their purpose to the silent student diners, in much the way the Dins or the Veritones do, and cleared out, cap guns...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: COCA-Colonialism | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

...Rouge and effectively lead a democratic government in Phnom Penh. But the fact that he chooses to ally himself with a guerrilla group repulsive to the majority of Cambodians does not speak will of his political judgment. While Prince Sihanouk argues that the Khmer Rouge will continue fighting their guerilla war unless they are given some say in governing Cambodia, that hardly justifies negotiating with mass murderers...

Author: By Susan E. Owen, | Title: Don't Let the Nightmare Return | 10/10/1989 | See Source »

...little rich girl buys a yacht to rescue Carlotta and Zede from prison, and, after wandering through the jungle in pink boots, she makes a new identity as an art teacher in Africa. Her rich parents, she claims, have "personally assasinated six rivers and massacred twelve lakes." A vicious guerilla fighter with a heart mothers a child and dies of grief when the father takes the daughter away to the capital. The daughter is sent to the Sorbonne but rejects its imperialist values and comes home to Africa...

Author: By Amy B. Shuffelton, | Title: A Disappointing Mixture of Pop Style and Deep Ideas | 5/8/1989 | See Source »

...defense of FMLN's guerilla-style opposition to the Salvadoran government, Garcia said that the country needed to respond to the "institutional violence" that has characterized the last two decades of Salvadoran politics. "Our people took the legitimate right to force," he said...

Author: By Chip Cummins, | Title: Speaker: Salvadoran Aid Should Be Conditional | 4/14/1989 | See Source »

...deaths of thousands of Palestinians at the hands of the Jordanians in a three-day period in 1970 was hardly documented in the same American newspapers that now condemn the deaths of dozens. But the guerilla war in Jordan must have formed a large part of Palestinian political consciousness, bitterness and, yes, "hatred...

Author: By Ghita Schwarz, | Title: Hatred in the West Bank | 3/22/1989 | See Source »

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