Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...high season for guerrilla warfare begins with the November rains. This year, however, the guerrillas' intentions were just one of many new uncertainties facing Rhodesia's 6.1 million blacks and 274,000 whites. Prime Minister Smith, following Henry Kissinger's dazzling diplomatic foray into southern Africa, had agreed to yield power to his country's black majority in two years time. His decision raised the possibility that Rhodesia ? as well as much of the rest of southern Africa ? might be poised on the brink of peace instead of a race war that was once thought inevitable...
...significant one ? was persuading Smith that he had no realistic choice but to accept a British plan, which he had earlier rejected, that would lead Rhodesia to black majority rule within two years. But a settlement that will bring an end to the guerrilla war smoldering along Rhodesia's 800-mile border with Mozambique and 400-mile border with Zambia is by no means a certainty. That war, which began in earnest in December 1972, may well continue through a fourth November-April rainy season. In four years, the fighting has taken the lives of 1,426 guerrillas...
With negotiation near, Rhodesian black leaders were busily conferring with each other. Both Nkomo, whose strength is in the rural areas, and Muzorewa, whose followers are mostly urban Africans, were wooing Robert Mugabe, who is influential with the guerrillas based in Mozambique. Either would like to join forces with Mugabe, thereby gaining guerrilla support. Mugabe is said to place emphasis on the need for military unity. The three are united on one point, at least: the country's name will be Zimbabwe (after an ancient African civilization that once thrived there...
...Jones, projects all the lying charm of that role, but with more blushes, blusterings and side-ways glances that belie his conscience-free self-confidence. And because the script faithfully represents the tensions created by the times rather than playing on the assumptions of the sixties, this psychological guerrilla war still rings true and poignant, whereas the same theme in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, with its dependence on now defunct fascination with 'the games people play' and the hypocritical humanism of academe, now seems dated...
...near) the centers of world power but in the underdeveloped and overpopulated Caribbean country of Santo Domingo. There Clay Loomis, a disaffected CIA agent turned soldier of fortune, serves as chief of security to the current dictator. His main job: trying to quell a guerrilla movement led by one RamÓn el Rojo. It is a loosing battle; before long RamÓn starts a Castro-type revolution that spreads through Santo Domingo like Asiatic...