Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jackson's labor and machine allies can steer voters to the "right" choices. (Of Pennsylvania's 178 delegates, 134 will be elected next Tuesday and the balance appointed later.) Thus the primary that had been billed as a dramatic Armageddon was becoming more of a diffuse guerrilla war that could yield split results...
Trumpets, violins and kazoos in Kirkland House dining hall yesterday announced the final showing of a guerrilla theater production enacted by members and sympathizers of the Harvard Task Force on Affirmative Action...
...When they no longer need me, they will spit me out like a cherry pit," Prince Norodom Sihanouk once said about Cambodia's new Khmer Rouge rulers. Last week the prince's pithy prediction came true. In a radio broadcast, Vice Premier Khieu Samphan, the iron-fisted guerrilla who has ruled the country since the Communist takeover a year ago, announced that Sihanouk had resigned as chief of state, even though he had been reconfirmed in that post by the National Assembly on March 20. Samphan said that the prince, heir to a long line of Khmer royalty...
...complying with the third point, the company ran into trouble. The difficulty was a longstanding policy-apparently set by Venezuela's tough President Carlos Andres ("Cap") Perez-of not allowing guerrilla propaganda of any kind to appear in the local press. No Venezuelan newspaper would print the manifesto; even so, Owens-Illinois decided to ignore official warnings and run the manifesto in three renowned foreign dailies-the New York Times, the Times of London and Paris' Le Monde...
Stanley called the present situation similar to the series of events that led to the Vietnam war, adding that American intervention in the Philippines would inevitably lead to another long and fruitless Asian guerrilla...