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Following the battle, Doyle announced that the disappearing Redcoats would proceed to Boston, suffering heavy losses from rebel guerilla troops on the way. As he announced the day's losses--Colonials 49, Redcoats 73, the crowd clapped and cheered for the home team...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: Dawn Rite Marks Battle's Anniversary | 4/19/1988 | See Source »

...number-two singles, Jon Cardi was involved in his own version of guerilla warfare. After the freshman sensation won the first set, 6-3, he dropped a hotly contested second...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Netmen Edge Out Midshipmen, 6-3 | 4/16/1988 | See Source »

...After nearly six years of protracted Communist guerilla warfare, Lee Kuan Yew forms the People's Action Party, seeking an independent Singapore...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Singapore Facts | 7/24/1987 | See Source »

...FORCES IN South Vietnam seem to be trying everything short of outright fighting to stem the growing strength of the guerilla revolt. But plush relocation camps to concentrate the peasants and helicopter supply lifts cannot sustain unpopular President Diem's rule without direct U.S. military support. Even such military action, however, would be likely to succeed only in the distant future. If U.S. policy continues, as guerilla fighting spreads and more American troops pour into Vietnam, the U.S. will doubtless be involved, in a shooting capacity, with a long and messy jungle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Negotiations in Vietnam | 6/8/1987 | See Source »

JOHNSON'S PREMISE that a poem, a Supreme Court ruling, and a "CIA manual on psychological operations in guerilla warfare" can all be reduced to rhetoric emphasizes--as does critical legal studies, as she points out--the process of textual interpretation...

Author: By Hein Kim, | Title: The Hubris of Reading | 5/20/1987 | See Source »

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