Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chiefs of Staff. They believe it is in the national interest to cede control of the waterway. Acting alone, surrounded by a hostile population not only in Panama but in the rest of Latin America, the U.S. would need an estimated 100,000 troops to put down a determined guerrilla effort. And even that sizable a force could not seal off the waterway's lock mechanisms, dams and power plants from some kind of sabotage. A band of skilled terrorists, for example, could approach the Gatun Dam through the dense jungle with relative ease. Properly placed explosives could blow...
...declares Abdullah! Abdi, a Somali military commander in the ugly little war that is being fought today in the Ogaden desert region of eastern Ethiopia. After years of sporadic guerrilla activity, the forces of the Western Somali Liberation Front (W.S.L.F.)-backed by their tribal cousins in the Somali Democratic Republic to the east-have been fighting fiercely since July to wrest the Ogaden from Ethiopia, which has controlled it off and on for 400 years...
...people and shot them. They would cut the breasts of our women to prevent them from suckling our young. When the fighting increased, the Ethiopians took 150 of our people as hostages. They shot them all, including my brother Odowa." Liban proudly claims to have been a guerrilla for 31 of his 71 years. "There is killing and killing," he says "but we are determined to fight...
...claimed to be a survivor of the Tal Zaa-tar Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, which had been overrun by Christian forces during the Lebanese civil war. The other male terrorist identified himself as Walter Mohammed. The skyjackers may be members of Min Beirut, a previously unknown Beirut-based guerrilla group that last week claimed responsibility for the skyjacking. Proclaiming Min Beirut's solidarity with the Red Army Faction, a message from the organization said that the purpose of the incident was "to secure the release of our comrades in prisons of the imperialist-reactionary-Zionist alliance...
...Salisbury, the balmy, slumberous capital of Rhodesia, the question these days is not whether the blacks will take over, but when. The bitter guerrilla war against black nationalist soldiers drags on, and Salisbury has begun to take on a Belfast look: bags are searched, windows are taped, and bomb posters are everywhere. For Rhodesia's white minority, the latest Anglo-American peace initiatives-even if successful-will lead only to the inevitability of black rule. Thus thousands of whites are packing up, selling their houses and cars (at huge losses), and emigrating to South Africa and beyond...