Word: guerrillas
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...landlocked Rhodesia with its principal outlet to the sea. The Portuguese territory is also a major infiltration route for black Rhodesian insurgents returning home from training camps in Tanzania. Black rule would mean a certain end to the virtual carte blanche that Rhodesian security forces now enjoy to go guerrilla hunting in the Mozambican bush. More important, a new government in the territory's capital, Lourenço Marques, might well refuse to transport Rhodesian goods by road and rail to Indian Ocean ports-meaning economic disaster...
...Prime Minister Ian Smith has his hands full dealing with what the nation's 271,000 embattled whites euphemistically describe as "the troubles." For several years after Rhodesia unilaterally declared its independence from Britain in 1965, it was able to go its own way with remarkable success. Guerrilla movements were generally unable to mobilize the territory's 5.7 million blacks against the white-dominated government. Sanctions voted by Britain and the United Nations were largely ignored by countries that saw profits in Rhodesian tobacco, beef and chrome. But 18 months ago, a guerrilla movement called ZANU (for Zimbabwe...
Although southern areas of Rhodesia are still virtually free of guerrilla activity, even the limited scope of the resistance thus far has put severe strains on the 2,500-man white army and the 1,000 blacks of the Rhodesian African Rifles, who are supported by 45,000 army and police reservists as well as 5,000 South African police. Reserve call-ups have severely depleted the labor force, a problem exacerbated by the refusal of white trade unions to allow the training of blacks in many crafts...
...heights-and depths. The number of would-be physicians has increased enormously over the past decade, but medical school expansion has not kept pace. Some 41,000 applicants are fighting for a scant 14,400 places. At many universities, pre-med students are engaged in a sort of academic guerrilla war to assure not only higher grades for themselves but also lower grades for their competing classmates. The result is an unhealthy atmosphere that could hurt the quality of American medicine...
Rubin grew up in New York City. In 1961 he graduated from Cornell with a major in wildlife conservation. He enlisted in the Green Berets "because there was a guerrilla war going on in Southeast Asia, and hi those innocent times I wanted to be part of it." He went to Viet Nam in 1962 with one of the early U.S. groups trained in counterinsurgency. He learned the language of the Rhade, a major Montagnard tribe (the one portrayed in The Barking Deer), and some-tunes acted as an interpreter between Montagnards and Vietnamese. The Rhade culture fascinated Rubin...