Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...face of repeated Marxist guerrilla attacks from neighboring Mozambique, the Rhodesian government has stood fast in its resolve and the Smith regime has remained one of the few in Africa free of Soviet penetration...
Deffenbaugh added that this type of case is typical is South Africa, although the sentences were unusually harsh. He said their severity was probably due to growing government insecurity as a result of increasing guerrilla activities in the north and the fall of the once-friendly colonial regimes in neighboring Mozambique and Angola...
...hardly coincidental that the Syrian attack took place on the eve of an Arab summit conference scheduled for this week in Cairo. Syria's President Hafez Assad, who wants to impose a settlement that will suppress Palestinian guerrilla activity and assure Syrian influence throughout the region, refused to attend any such meeting. Then, under pressure from Saudi Arabia, Assad agreed to confer with Arab leaders gathered over the weekend at the Saudi capital of Riyadh. After the talking was over, the prospect was that Syria would continue to push its offensive...
...will with their goats and sheep. In neighboring Zaire, alarmed officials seal off part of their northern frontier. At airports in Africa and Europe, passengers suddenly find themselves subjected to unusual scrutiny and occasional detention. These grim security measures are aimed not at halting some new eruption of guerrilla terror but at containing a possibly greater menace: a killer fever that has been spreading ominously in equatorial Africa, causing as many as 300 fatalities, including the deaths of four Belgian medical missionaries...
Although the terrain is ideal for armor, the Chinese are sticking to a "people's war" defense, concentrating on guerrilla tactics and mine warfare. "We will not attack first, but if the Soviet revisionists dare to attack us, we will certainly bury them in the vast ocean of a people's war," declared Hsieh Kao-chung, chairman of the Ili Kazakh autonomous prefecture revolutionary committee...