Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...entire campaign to reach the White House was built on the strategy of persuading the public to trust him. Without the solid backing of the Democratic Party's traditional power blocs, like the labor unions, Carter believes that he must function as a kind of political guerrilla, building a base at the grass roots. Says one White House aide: "In effect. Carter has to keep on campaigning." He also needs to get widespread backing to put pressure on Congress if it balks at passing his programs...
...million, the United Arab Emirates with $136 million and Qatar with $76 million. Rather like poor relatives embarrassed by the contributions of wealthier family members, even Jordan and Egypt -which is currently negotiating a $450 million loan from the International Monetary Fund-pledged $1 million apiece to help guerrilla organizations in southern Africa...
...have had experience with guerrilla fighting-and a philosophy of liberation. We helped the Mozambicans to fight by setting up training camps and passing on arms to them. We accepted risks, but they did the fighting. Our philosophy is that people must free themselves. You don't free them. It is no good our going into Rhodesia. No, this is a war of liberation, and the people have to liberate themselves. But if the war [is] internationalized and South Africa goes in on the other side, then I don't see how Tanzania could stay...
Rights Violations. The poorly armed guerrilla bands that remain in the hills spend more time running than fighting. Reports TIME Correspondent Bernard Diederich: "Some government patrols go for ten months without spotting a single guerrillero. But the killing goes on. Sources close to the National Guard say that the soldiers' orders are to 'clean out the hills.' The latest crop of guerrillas may be dead or in hiding, but 'this time the government wants to be sure that no new guerrilla base area will rise again. They intend to eliminate the peasants...
...Named for Augusto Cesar Sandino, a guerrilla leader who fought against occupying U.S. Marines in the late 1920s and was executed in 1934 by the founder of Nicaragua's ruling dynasty, Tachito's father Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza Garcia...