Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...near-revolution is equally ill-defined. The reggae music that throbs with such intimidation from the city stops, and the rioting begins. If whites perceived a direct threat in that music, that threat is not fulfilled. This "revolution" is merely turmoil in which everybody is at once a guerrilla and a leader. And its only direct effect is the death of a woman who never figured in imperialism or revolution, but who is transformed, or "chewed up," as the whites say, first into the "rotten meat" of miscegenation, then the "bloody meat" of retribution. But if revolutionaries are depraved charlatans...
After Patty was captured, her signing into jail as an "urban guerrilla" and giving a clenched-fist salute were symptomatic of her condition. There is, said West, a kind of "hanging on for a few days until you're really sure you are not in dangerous territory...
...Parliament, which now contains 50 whites and 16 blacks. The fear is that if the talks fail, Nkomo, in the words of one observer, will become "irrelevant." Then the militant black nationalists, who broke away from Nkomo's group last August, would almost certainly launch an all-out guerrilla invasion by the self-styled Zimbabwe Liberation Army. That army now has an estimated 10,000 guerrillas in Mozambique alone...
Since the first of the year, guerrilla activity against Smith's regime has been on the rise. Last week Rhodesia announced that its security forces had killed 24 guerrillas in "hot pursuit" along the Mozambique border, presumably meaning that the Rhodesians had entered Mozambican territory. The incident occurred twelve days after Mozambican President Machel had warned that he would invade Rhodesia if Mozambique's borders were violated...
...believe that the Angolan people, after having fought 14 years against Portuguese minority rule, will willingly submit to Russian-backed minority rule is to mock the conception of liberation and genuine human progress. The Americans found in Vietnam what the Russians are quickly finding in Angola, a hostile, guerrilla-organized rural majority intent on victory...