Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Agostinho Neto's pro-Moscow Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), which in mid-1975 already controlled twelve of the country's 15 provinces, and see that it had some competition in the pre-independence elections. The CIA decided to shore up two other guerrilla groups, the National Front for the Liberation of Angola (FNLA) under Holden Roberto and the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) led by Jonas Savimbi. But before long, says Stockwell, the looking-glass warriors at Langley began to view Angola as "our war," and the goal became victory...
...spite of the official 2 a.m. curfew imposed by the Portuguese Army, who were everywhere in their clattering three-man jeeps with the American-made .50-caliber machine-guns peeking out over the windshields. It's possible that the Portuguese looked the other way--after their bitter 15-year guerrilla war against black Angolan nationalists, a war that ended by toppling the Salazar/Caetano dictatorship in Portugal earlier in 1974, the Portuguese soldiers just wanted out. No more dying trying to turn back history...
...Zimbabwe of the future has now been under way for almost two months, but the durability of Salisbury's "internal settlement" remains in doubt. The biggest challenge facing the ruling Executive Council, composed of Prime Minister Ian Smith and three black moderates, is how to bring the guerrilla armies of the Patriotic Front into the electoral process, and thereby end the continuing civil war. But in the meantime, the council has been having problems within its own ranks...
...council also rescinded the decade-old laws banning the guerrilla parties' political wings that are based inside Rhodesia. Both wings have been operating there more or less openly under different names anyway, and the radicals scornfully rejected the council's offer. The gesture of legalizing the parties' status, said Josiah Chinamano, the leader of Nkomo's group, was "a waste of time...
With the reflexes of an old hand at guerrilla warfare, Salvan rolled out of his Jeep on the side away from the firing. Even so, he was hit twelve times, including ten times in the legs. All told, the clashes took the lives of two French troops, one Senegalese, one Palestinian and reportedly four Lebanese terrorists...