Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...liberating Claustre. At one point, France delivered an $880,000 ransom in cash and promised another $ 1.4 million in the form of nonmartial military goods, including a field hospital. Habre refused the bait, and the result was the astonishing spectacle of a nuclear power virtually helpless before a guerrilla leader with a ragtag army of fewer than...
Without negotiations of some sort, a guerrilla war that last year alone claimed 2,500 lives is likely to continue and broaden dangerously. Intelligence reports indicate that at least 500 Cuban and Soviet military advisers are already training Patriotic Front guerrillas in Mozambique. Some guerrillas have been taken to East bloc countries for advanced instruction. To ward off the Rhodesian air force, which has been effective against the guerrillas, surface-to-air missiles are being shipped in by the Soviets. White Rhodesians, too, appear to be gearing for war. More and more "boomers"-soldiers of fortune harking to the boom...
...GUERRILLA by WALTER LAQUEUR 462 pages. Little, Brown...
...Government. Likewise, if there ever is a Palestinian state in the Middle East, it will owe its existence to the fabulous wealth and political leverage of OPEC Arabs, not to the murderous acts of Al-Fatah. As Laqueur, Parry and Psychiatrist Frederick J. Hacker demonstrate in their books, guerrilla tactics (as differentiated from partisan action or government terror) have usually been an attention-getting device: if war is diplomacy by other means, then terrorism is a gruesome arm of public relations...
Laqueur, a member of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., compares modern terrorism with bygone atrocities. He coolly concludes that urban guerrilla movements, such as the extinct Tupamaros of Uruguay, may have seen their day. The reason, as Laqueur dryly notes, is that the decline of liberal democracy in many parts of the world makes it harder to be a terrorist. The Tupamaros, for example, began not under the heel of a dictator but in one of Latin America's most democratic nations. The membership, much of it privileged youth, successfully undermined the authority...