Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Others resist more directly by heading for the hills and jungles to mount armed insurgencies. Emulating the tactics of the Pathet Lao, Khmer Rouge or the Viet Cong, supporters of the old regimes are carrying on a guerrilla war that the new Communist police states have so far been unable to bring under control...
...force's nine T-28 fighter-bombers, manage to keep Highway 13 and Route 8 open during the day, but the Meo have full control after dark. In the south, at least 1,500 Royal Laotian army veterans and disgruntled peasants are carrying on another guerrilla war. "Our rural population is almost completely behind the rebels," one Vientiane resident told DeVoss. "People hide rice from the government and offer it to the rebels. Villagers celebrate when one of their young heads for the hills to fight...
...determined, often brutal, well-armed police state. Apart from being put in jail for a variety of reasons, people may be "banned"-restricted to a certain location, prohibited from attending meetings (including church) or going to school. Such intimidation works. So far, there have been few signs of urban guerrilla action or terrorism. There have been some individual work stoppages, and it is generally assumed that a one-week strike of the black work force around Johannesburg could shatter or at least severely damage the South African economy. No such strike has happened, because black workers are afraid of reprisals...
...than they would hurt their target. Sanctions must not be ruled out, but other forms of persuasion and pressure must be tried first. That will not be easy. The U.S. does not really have many ways of applying such pressure; while it would not help South Africa in a guerrilla war with black nationalists, it could scarcely help the other side either...
...barely. The situations are different, but Rhodesia's Ian Smith could have had a much better deal, with a moderate black regime, ten years ago than he can possibly have now. If the South African government refuses to change, it will assure an interminable series of explosions, terror, guerrilla war, the radicalization of the blacks...