Word: guerillas
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...from Hollingshead, fusing modern technology with his old-school concept of a drive-in, creating do-it-yourself outdoor movie experiences. DVD players, digital projectors and iPods have put the technology of drive-in movies into the hands of anyone with a technological bent. In California, the Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In collective has combined a love of movies with a mission to reclaim public space by staging word-of-mouth screenings of films ranging from politically subversive shorts to Dirty Dancing, and it has inspired other guerrilla-flick efforts in Portland, Me., and West Chester, Pa. In Berkeley, Calif...
...most strategic area outside its own borders where Tehran can exercise influence. Western diplomatic estimates of how many are there and where exactly they are vary, but several hundred Revolutionary Guards are believed to operate in the Hizballah-controlled Beqaa Valley, providing operational training to the movement's guerilla forces. For its part, Iran insists its aid to Hizballah is limited to humanitarian and moral support...
...down their arms, the fifty-six-year-old president, deep into spring, still nourished stubborn hopes. If he could somehow link up with Southern troops still in the field, perhaps those in Texas under General Edmund Kirby Smith, he and his brethren in gray might reconstitute themselves as a guerilla movement. And, if they could do that, who knew how long the Confederacy might be able to fight on? Perhaps long enough to exhaust a war-weary northern public...
Every year, fishermen in this coastal state of Vargas carry statues of the Virgin of the Valley in a traditional procession meant to bring peace and health. But now, they're using the "patron saint of the fishermen" to help prepare for something far from peaceful - a guerilla war against a U.S. invasion that President Hugo Chavez insists Washington is actively plotting. To prepare for a gringo attack, the Armed Forces and members of coastal communities recently stuffed three statues of virgins normally reserved for Catholic holidays with rifles and mortars to be used in a simulated ambush. The activity...
...Though an actual guerilla war may be far off, the war of words between the U.S. and Venezuela is certainly raging. The U.S. ambassador has been pelted with produce and chased away during charity events, while Chavez has called President Bush "the greatest terrorist in the world." For its part, Washington has accused Chavez of fronting an increasingly authoritarian regime...