Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Judged trustworthy because of his family connections, he was admitted to an underground group, sent to Cuba to learn guerrilla tactics, then ordered to organize a six-member cell. Among other jobs, he was involved in the murder of an informer and an attempt to spring a fellow terrorist out of an Old San Juan jail...
...committee ignored the fact that both Ford and his Secretary of State Henry Kissinger solidly support the treaty. Kissinger once again made that clear last week in a talk to the Economic Club of New York. Failure to ratify the treaty, Kissinger warned, might involve the U.S. in a guerrilla war in Central America...
...next night. He would be buried in an unmarked grave. In the end, he would not even be such a good soldier--Che was tracked down and killed by 650 Bolivian rangers, especially trained over some four months for the task by United States Green Berets. The manual of guerrilla warfare they used was Che's, written from notes compiled during the Cuban campaigns...
...Algerian War. One promising sign: Vorster has already warned Smith to accept two senior emissaries if, as expected, the Security Council passes a British resolution this week endorsing such a peace-keeping mission. The officials would be empowered to visit both the Rhodesian armed forces and the guerrilla armies of the Patriotic Front to try to arrange a ceasefire...
...make matters worse, there have been reports of clashes south of Belingwe between the separate (though theoretically allied) guerrilla armies-one associated with Joshua Nkomo's Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU), the other affiliated with Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU). To the west of Belingwe, ZANU is said to have warned a ZAPU group not to encroach. There are many arms caches in the Tribal Trust Land-perhaps in store for a day of reckoning between the two factions...