Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Only two weeks before the Egyptians struck across the canal, Sadat was host in Cairo to two leaders of the Palestinian guerrilla movement from Beirut. "Prepare yourselves," he told them. "We are going into war." The visitors duly reported Sadat's warning at an executive meeting of the Palestine Liberation Organization. The leaders chuckled at yet one more vain boast by Sadat, who has come to be known among Arab militants as "Old Goha," the classic fall guy in Egyptian jokes. Scarcely a week later the Egyptians struck, and Sadat was an instant hero throughout the Arab world...
Since then he has been a prime force in soothing passions among feuding Arab factions, with the goal of constructing a coordinated battle plan for Syrian and Egyptian forces against Israel. A specialist in both airborne and guerrilla warfare and the holder of a master's degree in political science, Shazli is extremely popular among his men. He maintains an almost mystical belief in the destiny of the Arab peoples. "Let us regain the glories of Arabism," he said at a meeting in Cairo of the Arab Chiefs of Staff, "and prove to the whole world that...
...Coalition's public activities so far have included publicity campaigns for antiwar programs such as last week's "No Peace, No Honor" forum at BU. The group also stages occasional guerrilla theater pieces and film showings for church and community gatherings. Plans are now hinted for a full-fledged series of demonstrations to protest activities of local businesses or organizations connected to the American involvement in South Vietnam...
...terrorists identified themselves as "the Eagles of the Palestine Revolution." That sounded like yet another unknown guerrilla splinter group, but Middle East sources reported that the kidnapers were almost certainly members of the extremist Black September movement. At the airport, the terrorists demanded that Austrian officials produce a passenger plane to carry the remaining Jewish hostages - two men and a woman - to an unspecified destination in the Arab world. But Austrian officials, after consulting with Chancellor Bruno Kreisky, closed the airport and stubbornly refused to let the kidnapers and their hostages leave...
...Maria, now 25, was more than a guerrilla groupie. University educated, multilingual, pretty, and with plenty of public relations savvy, she was one of the I.R.A.'s better front agents. Then after a year she fell out of love with the Provo leadership and defected to write this kiss-and-tell book about the men who have been blowing Ireland apart...