Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...office may be numbered. The Rhodesian Prime Minister is under mounting pressure to give up his impossible dream of perpetuating white minority rule in Salisbury and to avert further bloodshed by acceding to a new U.S.-British peace proposal. The initiative is aimed at ending the five-year-old guerrilla war with nationalist forces and paving the way for black majority rule...
...year that allegedly was backed by Libya, the most steadfast of the remaining Soviet clients in the region. Libya, of course, has just finished fighting a weekend war with Egypt, which abrogated its friendship treaty with Moscow only last year. Egypt has also warned Libya to knock off its guerrilla activities against Chad, a former French territory adjacent to Libya and Sudan. Libya, in the meantime, is sending military aid to Ethiopia-the only Arab state to do so. All in all, the situation is so complex and unstable that it has become difficult to tell who is doing what...
While the Turks marshaled their own forces, the Greeks fell to fighting among themselves. In preindependence days, Makarios battled the British with the legendary Colonel George Grivas, whose EOKA (for National Organization of Cypriot Fighters) provided the archbishop's guerrilla legions. After independence, Grivas was banished to Athens as part of the settlement. He later returned secretly to oppose Makarios with a new EOKA-B. After the 1967 coup of the colonels in Greece itself, assassination attempts and other plots against the archbishop multiplied. In 1974 the Athens junta mounted a coup that sent Makarios into hasty exile once...
...threat to his government from a new, right-wing splinter group (TIME, Aug. 1). Then, with his mandate reinforced, he hopes to create a moderate, multiracial government in Rhodesia that would include both whites and some conservative black nationalists-but not leaders of the radical Patriotic Front with its guerrilla army...
Died. Count Carl Gustaf von Rosen, 67, swashbuckling, humanitarian Swedish aristocrat; of gunshot wounds suffered during a surprise guerrilla attack; in Gode, Ethiopia. Von Rosen's daredevil "mercy" missions, which eventually spanned four decades and four wars, first brought him hero status during the 1936 Italian invasion of Ethiopia. The count once declared: "I was born in a castle, the son of a millionaire, and they tried to bring me up as a noble gentleman. But I was always naughty, always in trouble...