Word: guerrilla
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...similar clandestine organizations. While no one can be sure of the exact numbers involved, Fatah is the most prominent and the largest of them. To the Israelis, the raiders are terrorists and thugs, inept and indiscriminate in their missions. To the Arabs, they are freedom fighters in the best guerrilla tradition, skilled in the arts of the commando and the saboteur. The world knows them best as the fedayeen, meaning "men of sacrifice," a disparate group of clandestine plotters often at odds with one another, who play a large part in keeping the Middle East on the edge...
...peddle El Fatah stamps, to be used like Christmas seals, bearing a picture of a burned child and the words "Shalom and Napalm"-a reference to the use of napalm by Israelis in last August's reprisal raid on the Jordanian town of Salt. Other stamps show a guerrilla fighter, a monument to martyrs or Jerusalem, with the slogan: "Palestinian Resistance." The money raised, of course, goes to buy bullets...
...worker participation. The problems and prospects for community control and de-centralization in the U.S. were mentioned only very briefly. The sense of urgency seemed lacking, buried in reasoned discussion. The student observers at the conference (by no means militants themselves) fantasized about yelling obscenities or enacting a guerrilla theatre just to shake things up. And Brian Walden, a labor M.P. in Great Britain, seemed to put his finger on the problems when he said, "I am a politician. I therefore have an advantage over most of the people here--I sometimes see ordinary people...
...Early Guerrilla. David defeated Goliath, Gale adds, because he possessed fire power-meaning a primitive but effective missile-plus "the courage, the skill and the brains to use it." David might be considered an early prototype of the socially conscious guerrilla fighter, "cultivating friendship with the local people, who were happy to have a protector against the marauding Philistine tribesmen, even if for this he demanded tribute. He foraged far and wide, bringing retribution where it was due and giving succour where it was needed." Even in one of the most tragic defeats of Hebrew history-the futile defense...
...BRUTAL civil war in Nigeria is slowly dragging to a close. Little remains of the secessionist Eastern Region--Biafra. In just a few months, probably, all rebel territory will belong to the Federal Republic. Even then, though, some fighting will continue. Guerrilla units are operating behind federal lines, and they have been since August...