Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...debilitating guerrilla war continues in the northern half of the country, and the irregulars of FRELIMO seep steadily southward into areas where most of the white population of 220,000 out of a total of 8 million is concentrated. Guerrillas attacked the railway to Rhodesia for the first time this year. Only two weeks ago, they ambushed traffic on the main road linking the second city of Beira (pop. 400,000) with the capital of Lourenço Marques (pop. 700,000), killing three truck drivers. Such events temper optimism with apprehension...
...northern combat area to Lourenço Marques as a precaution, and in the end, Dos Santos and his family flew quietly back to Lisbon. In the African possessions of Angola and Portuguese Guinea also, the Governors General peacefully surrendered their jobs. Nonetheless, in all three provinces the chief guerrilla leaders have already declared their intention to fight on, regardless of the reforms promised by Spínola...
...Records, as do the odysseys of marathon smoke-ring blowers, balloonists, goldfish swallowers, grape eaters, yo-yo spinners, Scrabble players, prune devourers, face slappers, Pogo-stick jumpers, leapfroggers, barrel jumpers, needle threaders and record breakers in 10,000 other Record-worthy categories. For the past two weeks, in a guerrilla assault on Guinness, 200 young Californians assembled in Los Angeles to topple records or immortalize themselves and to discombobulate Recordkeeping...
...were to be a true federation, says Luis Cabral, a leader of Guinea's rebels, sheer weight of numbers would give the leadership to blacks. He adds sarcastically: "I'm sure Spinola wouldn't want a black government heading Portugal." Said Dr. Agostino Neto, an Angolan guerrilla leader: "What we want is to be completely free to determine the destiny of our own country. If all Lisbon has in mind is a federation-and not freedom-I think the war will continue...
Meanwhile, Jerusalem was visibly upset last week over another U.S. move toward the Arabs. In the United Nations Security Council, the U.S. and twelve other members condemned Israel for a reprisal raid on suspected Palestinian guerrilla hideouts in Lebanon. Then by a vote of 7 to 6, the Council rejected a U.S. amendment to censure the Palestinians as well for their attack on the Israeli town of Qiryat Shemona, which took 18 lives and precipitated the Israeli reprisal...