Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Smith's claim that the Kissinger package is an inviolable whole promptly ran into vehement opposition from the black nationalists. With some of them coming directly from Rhodesian prisons or guerrilla bases in the bush, they were in no mood to approve a transition plan that would give Smith the opportunity to dominate events in Rhodesia for two more years. The African National Council's delegation, led by Bishop Abel Muzorewa, reflected much of the blacks' apprehension when it warned that Smith had come to Geneva merely to "carry out a gigantic fraud aimed at confusing world...
Even as the delegates in Geneva were conferring, in Rhodesia the guerrilla war against the whites intensified, presumably to demonstrate black nationalist military strength as a bargaining lever. October was the bloodiest month in the nearly four years of fighting, with a death toll of 181 guerrillas, 20 security-force soldiers, twelve white and 88 black civilians. At a dozen points along the border, Mozambique-based guerrillas fired rockets and mortars at white settlements inside Rhodesia. From Zambian bases, other guerrillas attacked a motel in the tourist center of Victoria Falls, killing one white guest and wounding two others...
Rhodesia's 274,000 whites well recognize that the guerrilla fighting will probably get worse if the conference fails. Their mood has grown more anxious in the past month. In Salisbury, a Baptist minister intoned on a radio service that "surely these are times not for pale faces or trembling knees." Rhodesian President John Wrathall called on all his countrymen to pray every day for the success of the conference...
...lien, 63, Vice Premier and commander of the Peking Military Region. Once a peasant guerrilla fighter, Ch'en rose through the ranks of the Red Army. His support was probably essential in Hua's lightning coup against the radicals...
...democracy had evolved with its Communist neighbors in Indochina seems to have been derailed. Broadcasts from Hanoi and Vientiane have been sharply hostile to Tanin's government. Still, former Prime Minister Kukrit Pramoj dismisses the possibility that Thai opposition groups-even aided by the Vietnamese-can wage real guerrilla war. Instead, he predicts, those who have gone underground or into exile "will be back on bended knees to ask forgiveness so they can go back to the baths, massage parlors and nightclubs. The jungle is not for them...