Word: guerrilla
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Israelis are admittedly and purposefully tough in their efforts to stamp out guerrilla activities. Last week troops arrested 54 members of a major sabotage ring that had been operating along the West Bank of the Jordan; two other terrorists, caught in a cave north of Jerusalem, were killed trying to escape...
Despite such tactics, incidents of terrorism still occur. Arab "commandos" last month infiltrated close enough to Tel Aviv to lob nine mortar shells into the suburb of Petah Tiqva, and two weeks ago another guerrilla band shot it out with police near the city's international airport. Terrorists also blew up the water reservoir of a kibbutz in Upper Galilee, almost succeeded in cutting the rail line to Jerusalem and derailed a passenger train in the Negev...
Desert near Beersheba. A warning by the Arab guerrilla organization El Fatah that Christmas tourists would not be safe in the Holy Land led the Israeli government to station 950 security police in Jerusalem and Bethlehem and to set up roadblocks in the area...
...service stations, bearing such names as Esso, Enco and Humble (the New Jersey company's exclusive right to the Esso name is presently being fought out in Federal courts), are scattered everywhere around the world, from U.S. turnpikes to the African veld to the guerrilla-infested rural roads of Viet Nam. Jersey companies turn out 4,627,-000 barrels of petroleum products daily, sell one of every seven gallons of fuel marketed in the free world...
...sympathetic psychologist." As just the sort of observer he calls for, Bloodworth, who was the Far Eastern correspondent of the London Observer for twelve years, ranges deftly and wittily through Chinese history and literary legend to find the ideas that shape Communist behavior today: the ancient maxims for guerrilla warfare expounded by the 4th century B.C. strategist Sun Wu ("Do not fight a static war, and do not besiege cities"); the Robin Hood-like legend of Men of the Marshes, dating from the 13th century, that justifies Mao's own role as the righteous bandit against the evil established...