Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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APRIL 10, 1973. Israeli commandos, in a raid on Beirut, kill three Palestinian guerrilla leaders...
...presence in Cambodia of North Vietnamese and National Liberation Front troops. Yet observers in recent days have exposed the American-Lon Nol claims as lies. They have confirmed what was suspected all along: The continuing war in Cambodia is being joined not by Vietnamese invaders, but by indigenous guerrilla forces, the Khmer Rouge...
...Colt headed for the tarmac, it crashed into a gatepost. One of its two occupants fled through a field, but the other attacked a police guard by hitting him on the head with a hand grenade. The impact of the blow dislodged the grenade pin; the young guerrilla, afraid that he was going to blow himself up, threw the grenade away. It exploded harmlessly, and the Arab, now unarmed, surrendered...
...faced American officials shuttled in and out of the palace of Cambodian President Lon Nol. Battle reports proved contradictory and inconclusive. The British, Australians and Japanese evacuated their women and children. Beside the pool of the Hotel Le Phnom (the former Royal), reporters talked of the possibility of a guerrilla attack on the airport, the television station or some other suitable target to coincide with the Buddhist New Year's holiday. This was Phnom-Penh under siege. Reported TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott...
...kidnaping of officials and executives by various ill-defined political guerrilla groups has become almost epidemic. Two hundred cases have occurred in the past two years. So far this year, there has been an average of one reported kidnaping every three days, and many more go unreported...