Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sandinista National Liberation Front (F.S.L.N.). Even the sounds were different Gone was the stream of anti-Communist propaganda that had once poured from Somoza's radio station. In its place came round-the-clock broadcasts of revolutionary songs and tributes to General Cesar Augusto Sandino, the legendary nationalist guerrilla slain by Somoza's father in 1934. Proclaimed an announcer: "The sons of Sandino are going to build the country that the general dreamed about...
...stance in foreign affairs. Although the junta remains united, there have been foreshadowings of an eventual breakdown in the alliance of radicals and moderates who combined to topple Somoza. Asked if he supported the junta's economic program, Minister of the Interior Tomás Borge Martinez, a guerrilla leader who denies that he is a Marxist, would only say: "In the beginning it is going to be a mixed economy." What might follow...
...victim was tough-talking Zuheir Mohsen, 43, who was both Military Operations Chief of Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization and head of the P.L.O.'s Syrian-backed Al Saiqa faction. The assassination of the top guerrilla leader roused irate reaction around the Arab world. Syria blamed the "Camp David Alliance" of Israel, Egypt and the U.S. for the killing. The P.L.O. command in Beirut charged that the hit team had been dispatched directly from Begin's office. Mohsen's own Saiqa group accused the Egyptian secret service and its Israeli counterpart, Mossad, of having conspired...
...Managua last Friday, resistance had evaporated. Hundreds of thousands of cheering Managuans gathered in front of the National Palace to hail the new regime. Secure in victory, they embraced nervous national guardsmen who had been in fear of their lives. "Don't cry, brother," said an elderly guerrilla to a frightened young guardsman; he had threatened to kill himself with a hand grenade if he was not permitted to board an emergency flight out of the country. In the end, he lay down the grenade and fell, sobbing, into his former enemy's arms...
...VIET NAM. Hanoi's 600,000-man army has proved itself eminently capable of fighting conventional wars as well as guerrilla operations when copiously supplied from the outside. Viet Nam's formidable arsenal includes American-made equipment that was captured intact with the fall of South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu: 800,000 M-16 rifles, 550 tanks, 130,000 tons of ammunition and 1,000 aircraft of varying types. Lately, Hanoi has acquired some highly effective Soviet-made weaponry, including 900 medium and light tanks. Its 300 combat aircraft, mostly MiGs, are of Soviet...