Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Arab neighbors waited for the offensive with mixed apprehension and truculence. The Palestinian commandos took Mrs. Meir's speech as a challenge and warned that they would fight back; at week's end two Israeli soldiers were killed on the slopes of Mt. Hermon by guerrillas who had infiltrated over the border from Lebanon. Israeli troops also discovered mines laid near the Syrian border and reported they had traced guerrilla tracks back into Syria. In Damascus, the Syrian government openly admitted that it has been urging the fedayeen to action since the Israeli air raids on Syria...
...Israeli air force had already exacted a savage revenge for the murders, sweeping over Lebanon and Syria in ten raids on suspected guerrilla hideouts including the Syrian village of Al Hammeh and killing around 200 people, most of them civilians. Now, as defense officials explained after the Premier's speech, Israel intends systematically to attack the fedayeen and installations in the countries that harbor them. For instance, Israeli planes may attack not only guerrilla headquarters and training camps if they find them in Syria, Iraq, Libya or Egypt, but facilities belonging to the host country as well. At week...
Israel may also adopt some of the terrorists' own methods, taking the initiative against guerrilla cells in Europe and elsewhere. It is a form of warfare that is hardly new to Israelis. In the early 1950s, a special commando unit known as "101" carried out bloody raids into Egypt and Jordan. Israeli agents have also been sent abroad to kill Arab intelligence men, kidnap former Nazis such as Adolf Eichmann, and in 1962-63 to assassinate German rocket engineers working for Egypt...
LUANDA. Angola--There is no atmosphere of war in this African city, the capital of Portugal's largest and richest colony. There is none of the tension that a visitor would expect to find in a country which has now seen continual guerrilla warfare for nearly 12 years. No soldiers march through the streets by day or haunt the city's bars by night...
This tranquil atmosphere of confidence extends far beyond the capital Only a few troop carriers are seen today on the streets of Carmona, the center of the thriving North Angolan coffee industry and a prime locus of guerrilla activity since 1961 when the rebellion broke out only a few miles away...