Word: guerrilla
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remark was a challenge to Duarte, who has insisted that the returning exiles, who are allies of the Marxist F.M.L.N. guerrillas, must "define themselves" if they want to take part in Salvadoran politics again. If they refuse to accept the government's amnesty offers and to thereby renounce the F.M.L.N. and violence, they can be charged with complicity in future guerrilla activities. Said another returning exile, Guillermo Manuel Ungo of the National Revolutionary Movement: "I don't think most people realize the change that the F.M.L.N. has undergone. It has learned that this war is going to be won through...
...truck outside the base, killing the driver and wounding a woman soldier riding with him. As the attacker hurled grenades and sprayed bullets, the single guard at the gate retreated, allowing the assailant free entry into the camp. The man, who turned out to be a Palestinian guerrilla, had killed six Israeli soldiers and wounded seven others before he was shot to death by a 20-year-old officer who was among those wounded...
...camp had taken few or no precautions despite a general military alert. Not only did the guard at the gate leave the area when the shooting started, but many of the soldiers killed and wounded had been playing backgammon and checkers in a "clubhouse" tent when the guerrilla entered the military camp. "How did it happen," asked Army Chief of Staff Lieut. General Dan Shomron, "that one terrorist killed six soldiers and wounded seven others? We cannot live with an event like this...
Speculation on what else Gorbachev might have up his sleeve is running high in both Moscow and Washington. One possibility: Afghanistan, invaded in 1979 by Soviet forces that have been bogged down ever since in a guerrilla war that is highly unpopular in the U.S.S.R. This week, on the eve of the summit, the Soviet-installed regime in Kabul is due to announce a new constitution making Islam the state religion and giving opposition forces a nominal role in the government. Some diplomats think that at the summit Gorbachev may announce withdrawal of some of the 115,000 Soviet troops...
...only shadow on this idyllic scene is the restive presence of the Palestinians, and keeping tabs on them and their leaders becomes Tom's job. Before long he establishes a tenuous contact with Jamal Ramlawi, a handsome, brooding young man reputed to be a rising star in the largest guerrilla organization. Jamal refuses to spy directly for Rogers and the CIA, but he does offer liaison, a system of sharing information between his organization and the U.S. Rogers' superiors back in Washington dislike this arrangement but eventually accept it in the absence of anything better...