Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many Greeks, the slight, mustachioed Grivas was more god than man. He was already a legend during World War II, when he led a feared band of right-wing guerrillas that fought against the German occupation of Greece and, more actively, against Greek Communist partisans. Then in the 1950s his skillful command of EOKA, the Greek Cypriot guerrilla army, ended British control of the island and gained for Grivas a place in the Greek pantheon of heroes...
...into accepting union with Greece. Even the government in Athens had condemned Grivas' terrorist campaign. And in Cyprus, the general's repute had sunk so low that the House of Representatives, just before his death, was threatening to brand him "a common criminal" unless he ceased his guerrilla activities...
...Khmer Rouge, the major insurgent group in Cambodia. They are kept on the move between prison compounds. Their exact identities are not known, nor is the state of their health." This new information partially corroborates previous intelligence reports that longhaired, bearded prisoners have been seen by Cambodian peasants near guerrilla hideouts along the South Vietnamese border...
...earlier infiltrated the club, quickly rose from their tables to help shove the American into a getaway car. Several days later a photograph was sent to Buenos Aires newspapers by the E.R.P. showing a nervous Samuelson posed in front of a poster of Che Guevara, the Argentine-born guerrilla killed in Bolivia...
Doubts remained whether Peron could bring the terrorists under control. During the turbulent years of his exile, guerrilla groups on both the left and right were formed as underground cells to advance their militant causes. Most of these cells fought for Peron's return, but now that the old man is back in the saddle, they have refused to disband. Instead, they have taken to kidnaping businessmen as a means of financing their operations. And Peronists have increasingly turned on each other. A left-wing Peronist lawyer and his wife were recently murdered in Buenos Aires, presumably by rightists...