Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Neighboring Jordan seethed with an unrest that might dethrone King Hussein and force the nation to join an Arab union. Cairo's press headlined that Hussein was challenged by his army. Syria and Iraq papers reported "spreading revolution" and "guerrilla war with pitched battles." In Damascus a band of Jordanian exiles, led by handsome, hotheaded ex-Colonel Ali Abu Nuwar, 40, set up a rival "government." Abu Nuwar had nearly toppled Hussein in 1957, but because of old friendship, the King spared Abu Nuwar's life and banished him. Ever since, Abu Nuwar has repaid...
Snow's interview with Mao made history. He was the first journalist whom Mao had permitted to visit Communist territory, and in his classic book Red Star Over China he gave the world its first close-up of this guerrilla movement that was steadily gaining strength in the North of China. At the same time, he obviously enjoyed travelling through the mountains with a group of young men who seemed to be among the few people in China actually doing something about mass poverty, illiteracy, and Japanese imperialism...
World War II and Japan's swift conquest of the Malayan peninsula hastened Abdul Rahman's maturity. As a useful district officer, the Tunku was kept on the job by the Japanese. Secretly, however, he helped hide escapees from Japanese death camps, kept in contact with British guerrilla units, which were supplying arms to anti-Japanese Communist irregulars in the jungles...
Merdeka. Abdul Rahman was so busy politicking that he had taken little military interest in the brutal, bloody guerrilla war that 350,000 British and Malayan troops and home guardsmen were waging against Communist insurgents in Malaya's tangled jungles. But after his 1955 election landslide, the Tunku grew afraid that the British might use the emergency to delay independence, arranged to meet the Communist rebel chieftains in northern Malaya to see if some sort of settlement could be worked out. "My ideas about Communism were determined by that meeting," says the Tunku. "I became convinced that once...
Eilif is "The Brave Son." He makes a name for himself in the war by staging a guerrilla raid on some farmers, murdering them, and stealing their cattle. During a brief interval of peace, he does the same thing and is shot for brigandage. Swiss Cheese is "The Honest Son," faithfully concealing a military payroll box after the enemy overruns his outfit. While Mother Courage haggles over the bribe price for his pardon, he is shot. At this blow, Mother Courage gives a fist-stifled yowl of animal grief and the playgoer grudgingly begins to pity her fate...