Word: guerillas
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Lemmer testified that Camil called the M-1 carbine "an ideal weapon for urban guerilla warfare" and showed Lemmer home-made chemical bombs, "anti-personnel devices" that spewed fiberglass shrapnel, and $2.60 wrist-rocket slingshots
...five years for the world to give them back to their country, but the world community has failed them. They are filled with despair that turns into anger of such intensity that they feel they must now take matters in their own hands. That is their only hope. The guerilla groups are determined to do just that. This development of Palestinians fighting for themselves brought for many of them a rebirth, a new sense of humanity. Turki returned from his retreat in India with a new pride of being a Palestinian. He felt part of the struggle against "imperialist oppression...
...immediate aspects. Though most of No-Go was unrehearsed, Chase used three actors, actual leaders in the IRA, playing themselves. Each tells his story, gives his rendition of the struggle, and expresses his own hopes and doubts in monologues dubbed over the picture. They engage in argument, or guerilla practice, and sometimes they act, an occasional weakness in an allegedly unstaged film...
...think of this personalized feminism as a parlor form of guerilla warfare that uses an artillery of intuitive language--mime, gesture, silence--to sabotage the enemy. It is rather like a revolution of manners, something felt rather than articulated. You can't structure a sensibility, you can only recognize it. And you recognize it not in action but in the reverberations of an action, like watching drops of water distilled from the air, or learning to hear the unspoken associations in the grooves of a sentence. My feminism works rather like an inner eye that registers the other side...
...effect of Nixon's January bombing threat was to harden the already obdurate position of the Cambodian guerilla forces led by Prince Sihanouk, whom Nixon refused to speak with during the February 1972 China trip, according to Harrison Salisbury's recent book To Peking and Beyond. The Cambodian resistance leaders alleged on January 26 that the United States had plans to destroy their zone of control, which they claim constitutes 80 per cent of the land area and 90 per cent of the population...