Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Third Front. The guerrilla organizations were active during the fighting, although not particularly effective. Palestinian commandos surfaced to fight in Syria and Egypt and opened a "third front" in Lebanon, by shelling Israeli settlements across the border...
...Palestinian guerrilla organizations proved notably unsuccessful in inciting Arabs in the occupied lands to subversion or sabotage. The main reason is that the Israeli government has been successful in wiping out the infrastructure of Al-Fatah and other guerrilla groups in the occupied territories. Another is that community leaders-in spite of their sympathy for the Palestinian cause-have by now become more or less resigned to Israeli rule. Thus terrorist efforts in the occupied lands were few and halfhearted. One Arab resistance group considered sprinkling tacks on West Bank roads to slow up Israeli military traffic...
Volunteers from places as diverse as Cuba and Thailand are streaming into enlistment posts just behind the Socialist American lines. Jose Garcia, who once was a member of the Tupamaros, the Uruguayan urban guerrilla organization, explained that the dictatorship in his country was withering away...
...most dramatic exploits of the week was the raid on the Beirut branch of the Bank of America by five terrorists who said they belonged to the Lebanese Revolutionary Socialist Movement. They held more than 30 prisoners hostage overnight while demanding that all Palestinian guerrillas be freed from Lebanese prisons and that the bank donate $10 million to the Arab war against Israel. Next morning police stormed the building and freed the hostages. Five people were killed: three guerrilla's, one hostage, one policeman...
...perfervid Arab patriot is Deputy Commander in Chief of the Syrian army as well as Defense Minister. Tlas, 45, has been an uncompromising opponent of any attempt at a negotiated settlement of the Middle East crisis. A believer in "people's war," and author of a book on guerrilla fighting, he was one of the first Syrian army regulars to give support to the Palestinian commandos in their war against King Hussein, with a brief but disastrous invasion of Jordan...