Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Arafat. What is his aim? He said in the so-called Palestinian charter that it was the destruction of the Jewish state. Israel must disappear. He wants to destroy a nation. Our aim is to save a people. When I am called a terrorist and Arafat is called a guerrilla, I think it is the apex of injustice...
Rhodesian officials shrugged off Kaunda's declaration as the diplomatic equivalent of a mosquito bite, but the brutal civil war in the runaway British colony continues-and it is the innocent who suffer most. Caught in the political crossfire, terrorized black villagers are beaten, tortured or murdered by guerrillas if they refuse to help the cause, jailed and sometimes hanged by Rhodesian government forces if they do. Earlier this month, a 15-man security-force patrol tracked a team of guerrillas through the Ndanga Tribal Trust Land to Dabwe Kraal. When darkness fell, the troops climbed over a fence...
...fled across the border into Botswana. Such incidents are taking their toll on the daily lives of the country's whites. During a 1,200-mile tour of Rhodesia, TIME'S Johannesburg bureau chief William McWhirter stopped at missions and family farms, many of them along the guerrilla-infested border with Mozambique. He found that while many whites still believe they can hold their own in the war, it has become a futile effort, delaying and making more difficult the possibility of a settlement with the black majority, which they now accept as inevitable. Some vignettes from...
...immigrants who work in garment-manufacturing firms owned by the mobsters. The Eastern and Midwestern hoodlums have run into stiff competition from entrenched indigenous gangs in at least one field?narcotics. This is still largely in the hands of the so-called Mexican Mafia, the Nuestra Familia, the Black Guerrilla Army and other independents...
...Ethiopia's 60-member junta, largely by pressing a campaign of arrests and killings that rivals even Ugandan Field Marshal Idi Amin's considerable efforts in this area. Mostly, Mengistu's efforts have been aimed at half a dozen rebel organizations, including a full-fledged guerrilla force fighting for independence in Eritrea, a desert province along the Red Sea coast. While cracking down at home, Mengistu-like other African leftist leaders-has attempted to consolidate his power by cozying up to the Soviet Union. He was especially anxious to court the Kremlin in view of the rapid...