Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bring peace to strife-ridden Lebanon, Syria last week upped the ante with a massive military intervention in an all-out attempt to enforce a long-elusive Pax Syriana. Instead of calming the situation, the move at first brought Damascus into bloody conflict with its erstwhile ally, the Palestinian guerrilla movement, and forced it into an unwanted, possibly only temporary, compromise in which other Arab states are sending token forces into Lebanon...
Republicans: Says Reagan's Ohio campaign director, Peter E. Voss: "It's guerrilla warfare down here. I can't build bridges or highways. We're fighting the king." The king, of course, is Ford, who already has 24 of the state's 97 G.O.P. delegates, since there are no Reagan delegate slates in one-third of Ohio's congressional districts. Ford also enjoys the backing of Governor James A. Rhodes and other G.O.P. bigwigs. They have an elaborate campaign operation and ten telephone banks across the state...
...meet the growing guerrilla threat from black nationalists operating from across the Mozambique border, the Smith government has implemented domestic press censorship, announced the biggest military mobilization since the breakaway from Britain in 1965, and begun talking of an "offensive" strategy that suggests the possibility not only of civil war at home but also of air strikes against Mozambique. Said Lieut. General Peter Walls, Smith's army commander: "We are switching from contain-and-hold to search-and-destroy, and adopting hot pursuit when necessary." It was the Rhodesian bombing of a Mozambique village in February that...
...Peron ruled over a corrupt right-wing bureaucracy which maneuvered and stole with full support of the Peronist-dominated congress. Peron's policies had the tacit acceptance of the Argentine military as long as his (or Isabel's) regime would give the generals a free hand to attack the guerrilla and other left-wing movements. During the last few months of Mrs. Peron's regime, the military and right-wing paramilitary forces were waging an open war against the leftists while "Isabelita" was taking all the blame for economic paralysis and political chaos. This was a very convenient situation...
There were political as well as economic reasons for the March 24 coup. The two left-wing guerrilla groups (People's Revolutionary Army (ERP) and Montoneros) had in the last few months of Isabel Peron's government made some advances in the labor unions. These had traditionally been Peronist strongholds, but recent guerrilla actions had given the Marxist left renewed prestige and influence for the first time in 30 years. A number of industrialists had been kidnapped and ransomed for salary raises and other benefits for the workers. Since July 1974, the ERP had maintained a very active rural guerrilla...