Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...late '50s, Fidel Castro led a guerrilla revolt against the military dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. At first, his profession of democratic principles won him considerable support among the Cuban middle class and in the United States (though one American ambassador asked Batista if he wanted a CIA or FBI agent sent to assassinate him), even though the core of his army came from the peasantry. But when Castro began to talk about nationalizing industry and collectivizing agriculture, and failed to hold the elections he'd promised, the United States and many Cuban liberals became alarmed. First the United States stopped...
...presidential campaign, according to Segretti, Chapin directed a clandestine guerrilla-warfare operation against Democrats. Segretti has testified that he was hired by Chapin, whom he had known since both attended the University of Southern California, to play malicious tricks on the opposition, including distributing a letter, printed on stationery stolen from Senator Edmund Muskie, that accused Senators Hubert Humphrey and Henry Jackson of sexual misconduct...
Conciliatory Gesture. The Palestinian guerrilla groups, in the meantime, were trying to decide what goals to press for at the eventual conference. Yasser Arafat and the more moderate of the Palestinians favor the return of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank of the Jordan, and would turn this territory into a separate Palestinian state; but they do not call for an end to the state of Israel...
...Russians must see to it that neither side comes out of the present fighting with the idea that it is superior. If the U.S. and Russia can live feeling equal, the Israelis can learn to live without their territory-grabbing tactics and the Arabs without their guerrilla terrorism...
Died. Semyon M. Budenny, 90, Russian war hero celebrated in song and story for his guerrilla cavalry exploits during the Russian civil war of 1918-21; in Moscow. A chunky, instinctive fighter with an elaborate mustache, Budenny was named one of the original Red Army field marshals in 1935 and commanded the ill-fated southern army during World War II. Budenny won the Order of Lenin eight times, most recently in April of this year...