Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unopened Heineken beer. Deciding it would not be a good idea for alcoholic beverages to be in evidence when the teetotaling Muslims reached the second floor, embassy staffers drank the beer. "Happy Valentine Day," someone quipped. But the joking could not disguise the fear they all felt when the guerrillas marched into their refuge. "Everybody get down," ordered a guerrilla wearing a camouflage jacket and blue work pants. "I thought we were going to die for sure," said Los Angeles Times Correspondent Kenneth Freed, who was among the captives...
...major confrontation between the two countries is unlikely as long as Khmer Rouge guerrillas loyal to ousted Cambodian Premier Pol Pot continue fighting. After the invading Vietnamese succeeded last month in installing a pro-Hanoi regime in Phnom-Penh, it soon found itself tied down by guerrilla resistance in the Cambodian countryside...
Every audience had felt the devastating effect of the last six years of active guerrilla war. At the Sports Club in the farming area of Centenary where Smith spoke, the man who should have been the chairman, Gert Muller, had died in a rocket attack on his farm on New Year's Day. One woman told Smith that she had lost five relatives within six months. She was supporting him in this election, not out of enthusiasm so much as out of a grim and grudging acceptance of the inevitable...
...gravest problem, however, is that Rhodesia is still wracked by guerrilla war, and there is no end in sight. Twelve thousand black and white Rhodesians have been killed in six years of fighting; of those, 500 died last month alone, making January the third worst month for casualties since the war began. Almost 90% of the country is under one form or another of martial law; most people travel by convoy, with or without military escort, and most are armed. The Patriotic Front, headed by Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe, has 12,000 guerrillas inside Rhodesia and thousands more...
...take the lead in ending the 13-year U.N. economic sanctions against his country. Once a new black government is accepted as legitimate by other nations, it might then be able to gain some military support, if only from South Africa and a few others, in fending off the guerrillas. A likelier prospect is that the guerrilla war will turn into a broader civil war as the various black factions, separated by tribal, personality and ideological divisions, battle each other for power. Small wonder, then, that more than 13,000 of Rhodesia's dwindling number of whites chose...