Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only to coups and the death of caudillos, the commercial film industry produces only infrequent glimpses of Latin America--usually more harmful than helpful. Perhaps many people in this country, when they think of Latin America, picture Woody Allen blowing off his hand with a grenade as a bungling guerrilla in a banana republic, where revolutions are such regular happenings that Howard Cosell interviews the deposed leader as he dies on the palace steps...
...field and off. A banner headline in Bild Zeitung, the nation's largest paper, reported that a German soccer star had shaved off his mustache. A nervous West German government has spent millions of marks to prevent terrorists from seizing the Cup as their latest forum for guerrilla attacks...
...certain vagueness about the title character raises the suspicion that this tough novel about an American guerrilla-warfare expert who cracks up in an Asian jungle may be a parable of the American Viet Nam disaster. Indeed, it might be entitled The Gray Badge of Pragmatism...
...Middle East miracle, one group remained dourly uncertain. At Arab League headquarters in Cairo, 177 shirt-sleeved delegates of the Palestine National Council-a parliament of Palestinians hi exile-gathered to debate their next move. All the delegates also belong to the Palestine Liberation Organization, a conglomerate of six guerrilla organizations led by Yasser Arafat, which faces a dilemma: How can it continue to hold out against Israeli presence hi its homeland and at the same time withstand pressure from Egypt, Syria and Saudi Arabia to join the movement toward peace...
Angola and Mozambique are more troublesome. Both have large white populations and big Portuguese economic investments. In neither territory, moreover, can the principal guerrilla movements claim, as they can in Guinea, to speak for most blacks. Yet unrest in Portugal makes one thing clear: the country has no more stomach for war in Africa, and the junta will have to grant the African territories freedom, whatever its shape and form. "There is no doubt about it," says Henrique Scares de Melo, a white lawyer in Mozambique who is expected to be named soon to head an interim territorial government...