Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...perennially factious forces in Cambodia before his ouster in 1970, announced that he was launching a new effort to return his country to political neutrality. The Prince, who may be the only figure with enough universal appeal to unite the country, said that he was establishing a non-Communist guerrilla force as an alternative to both the Pol Pot and the Heng Samrin regimes...
...British Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington, chairman of the Lancaster House Conference, abruptly suspended negotiations. That was Carrington's response after a second refusal by Patriotic Front Co-Leaders Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo to accept a British-drafted constitution. The talks could not resume, said Carrington, until the guerrilla leaders approved the latest plan "without ambiguity...
...growing number of Catholic militants in the Philippines, that day has apparently arrived. TIME has learned that a clandestine Catholic group, led by several priests and called the Democratic Socialist Party, has organized its own small guerrilla movement, composed of ex-seminarians and other devout laymen. Since 85% of Filipinos are Catholic, the guerrilla group is a highly symbolic new challenge to Marcos and the seven years of martial law. The movement is left-wing but also antiCommunist, and thus could represent an eventual counterforce to the much broader Communist insurgency...
...casualties "never reached more than a quarter of the 800 a week that Laird had feared," and dropped sharply after that. At the time, Kissinger estimated that the action would delay Hanoi's next major offensive by six to eight months; Sir Robert Thompson, the British expert on guerrilla warfare, figured that it would set the North Vietnamese back by as much as two years. Thompson proved to be right. But that did not help to defuse a gathering explosion at home. The May 4 killing of four students at Kent State University by rifle fire from Ohio National...
...their own political future. The DMZ would be respected. The U.S. would pledge to aid in reconstruction efforts.] The agreement reflected a true equilibrium of forces on the ground. If the equilibrium were maintained, the agreement could have been maintained. We believed Saigon was strong enough to deal with guerrilla war and low-level violations. The implicit threat of our retaliation would be likely to deter massive violations. We had no illusions about Hanoi's long-term goals. Nor did we go through the agony of four years of war and searing negotiations simply to achieve a "decent interval...