Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rome attack was planned to upset the Geneva conference, it backfired. The talks began without a hitch. The attack underscored an important fact about the Palestinian guerrilla movement today: it is badly divided...
...Hemmeh region near Lake Tiberias. Opposing that plan are the hard-line commando elements, who will accept nothing less than the dissolution of Israel and the creation of a secular state that would cover all of pre-1947 Palestine. Some of them are talking of Viet Nam-style guerrilla action until that end is achieved. In this camp is George Habash's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which has condemned the Geneva conference as "disgraceful," as well as the General Union of Palestinian Students...
...little more than paint slogans on walls. But in the mid-1960s a group of young Basque patriots rejected the moderation of their elders and secretly formed the terrorist "Fifth Wing" of the E.T.A. Consisting of a few dozen men at most, it is a tautly disciplined, highly trained guerrilla band, well supplied with arms either captured from the police or bought in Sweden and Czechoslovakia. Most Basques have scant interest in the E.T.A.'s brand of terrorism. But though unlikely to achieve its ultimate goal of Basque independence, the E.T.A. is today the group with the greatest ability...
...hearts-and-minds program carried out by living with villagers for long periods, organizing self-help projects and pleading the Portuguese cause. Other units, known as flechas (arrows), are made up of rebel defectors who sometimes patrol in captured uniforms and are rewarded with cash bounties for every guerrilla or guerrilla weapon they capture...
...Arab attack. Jews argue that the liaison between the council and the Palestine Liberation Organization -intended to preserve a broker role in the conflict-impedes peace by encouraging the extremists. Moreover, the council has a growing number of churchmen from the Third World who actually support the Palestinian guerrilla cause. "The council has committed itself to a national liberation ideology," complains Tanenbaum. "It would help if they would see that Israel is also an instance of liberation for a people...