Word: guerrillas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...between the Lebanese army and Al-Fatah, which threatened to plunge Lebanon into civil war, was settled by a compromise. Major General Emile Bustani, Lebanon's chief of staff, who represented President Charles Helou at the Cairo talks, gave a pledge to Yusser Arafat, leader of the main guerrilla organization, Al-Fatah, that...
...Cairo meeting. He first flew to Damascus, where he persuaded his compliant Syrian hosts to suspend their rule barring Lebanese and Western newsmen from the country. As a result, Arafat had a sizable EastWest audience for the first formal press conference he has ever held. Oozing confidence, the guerrilla leader strode into the Damascus University law-school auditorium wearing a five-day growth of beard but without the tinted wraparound sunglasses that have become something of a trademark...
Becker's story is based on a real incident. On May 11, 1865, 32 days after Lee surrendered and 18 days before President Andrew Johnson declared an amnesty for all rebel soldiers, a Union firing squad executed Thomas Martin outside Cincinnati for being a Confederate guerrilla-even though the case against him was never proved...
Crack Down. Whether the Lebanese or the Al-Fatah guerrillas provoked the fighting is unclear. Certainly, the army has long been edgy. Last December, in retaliation for guerrilla actions elsewhere, Israeli commandos carried out a raid on Beirut airport. Lebanon's generals, humiliated that the nation lost 13 commercial airplanes without being able to strike back, were chafing to crack down on the guerrillas, who were moving across the countryside pretty much at will...
Border Troubles. Helou also telephoned Syria's head of state, Noureddine Atassi, to protest Damascus' support of the guerrilla raids. Atassi had closed the Syrian-Lebanese border, stranding more than 500 trucks along the 68-mile Beirut-Damascus highway, one of the Middle East's busiest trade routes. Ignoring Helou's protests, Syria -or the fedayeen-moved riflemen, armored cars and mortars to the Lebanese frontier. At week's end some troops were reported to have crossed the border and occupied a village four miles inside Lebanon. The Syrians have traditionally been better at rattling...