Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Marcos pledged more opportunities for young Moslems to study at universities and to enter the Christian-dominated Philippine Military Academy. Last week he also dispatched an engineering battalion to Mindanao to work on electrification projects in Moslem communities. But such gestures may be too little, too late. In guerrilla wars, they often...
...interests. The government not only extends political recognition but provides military and police aid. Between the end of World War II and 1961, the military emphasis was on collective hemisphere defense in the Cold War. By 1961, after Castro's takeover in Cuba and the emergence of guerrilla groups, the basis shifted to internal security within the hemisphere. The U.S. began to provide counter-insurgency training for officers in the Canal Zone. Equipment aid shifted from jets, tanks, and ships to jeeps, helicopters, grenades, and carbines. U.S. officials justified their actions by playing on the public's irrational fear...
...invaders quickly identified themselves as members of Black September, the Palestinian guerrilla group that murdered eleven Israelis at the Munich Olympics last summer. Holding a sort of mock court in which the captives were judged according to their country's attitude toward the Palestinian cause, they singled out as hostages the two Americans, Noel and Moore (whom they bound and beat), Belgian Eid, Saudi Host Al Malhouk and Jordanian Chargé d'Affaires Adly al Nasser. The choices did not make complete sense. Though the U.S. and Jordan have strongly opposed the Palestinian guerrilla movement, Saudi Arabia...
This poem was written in memory of the first five women killed in the struggle for Angolan independence. They were the first women to join a guerrilla detachment of the MPLA (People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola). All five were captured in 1967 and later murdered...
...colony, Laos drifted into independence after World War II, under the custody of a fractious royal family. The two chief rivals: Prince Souvanna Phouma, who became Premier, and his half brother, Prince Souphanouvong, who became a follower of North Viet Nam's Ho Chi Minh and headed the guerrilla Pathet Lao. Fighting between their forces continued fitfully for years, and the war in neighboring Viet Nam turned dreamy little Laos into a strategic battleground, a Communist sanctuary and supply route between North and South...