Word: guerrillaism
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...related but are both members of the Acholi tribe. It was the belief that Obote discriminated against the Acholis and favored officers from his own Lango tribe that helped spark the coup. The general's greatest challenge will be to win the backing of the National Resistance Army, a guerrilla group led by former Defense Minister Yoweri Musevni, which was at the forefront of the struggle against Obote. "Forming a military government without Musevni means it cannot last," says a Ugandan political analyst. The rebels demand a greater say in the formation of the new government and strongly object...
García had no choice politically but to resist foreign creditors. Peru's fragile democratic government, only five years old, must contend with a rebel guerrilla insurgency as well as an economy in crisis. Inflation runs at 250%, and about two-thirds of the labor force is either unemployed or working part time. Worst of all, García alleges, wealthy Peruvians have been frantically buying U.S. dollars and putting money into bank accounts abroad. To stop this capital flight, García shut down Peru's banks after he became President. When he allowed them to reopen two days later, accounts...
...South African government's violent attempts to control black political dissent [WORLD, July 29] are doomed to failure. Ultimately the young black militants will be driven into the arms of the Communists, who will provide these angry and frustrated revolutionaries with guerrilla training and weapons. Then the bloodbath will really start. James Snowden Long Beach, Calif...
...Great Court of the University of Nairobi campus provided an outdoor bulletin board for the world's causes and conflicts. A Japanese peace group displayed life-size photographs of atom-bomb victims. The Pan Africanist Congress, a black South African liberation group, tacked up a banner showing a female guerrilla fighter. Free-form discussions of war and peace went on all day in three large blue-and-white-striped tents, known collectively as the Peace Tent. There all the gathering's anxious, angry or exhausted vented their hopes and fears. Over and over, women spoke in sweeping terms...
...subjugation was never complete. An assassination attempt against a group of Italian overlords prompted murderous reprisals. They in turn ignited a guerrilla campaign (a tactic Mockler thinks the Ethiopians should have used from the beginning instead of suicidal frontal assaults). But not until Britain and Italy opposed each other in World War II did Italy's grip truly loosen. One of the attacking British contingents was a motley group called Gideon Force, led by Palestine Veteran and ardent Zionist Orde Wingate. Escorted by the force, Haile Selassie re-entered Addis Ababa in triumph...