Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Leader Jonas Savimbi admitted to TIME Correspondent Barry Hillenbrand after a tour of UNlTA's central front last week that the next week or two will be crucial to his cause. If the M.P.L.A. makes greater gains, Savimbi said he is planning to return to the sort of guerrilla warfare that all three liberation movements used in their long war against the Portuguese...
...bright. An estimated 100,000 members of the Ovimbundu tribe, who make up most of UNITA's support, have already fled into the bush to avoid the fighting. At his front-line rallies, Savimbi urged others to follow. After eight years in the bush as a guerrilla fighter against the Portuguese, he professed not to see any problem with this. 'Mao taught us that a peasant revolution can be successful, but the people have to be willing to suffer,' said Savimbi, who spent nine months in China in 1965. 'When one has a garden...
...territory the M.P.L.A. is now entering is the traditional heartland of the Ovimbundu tribe. Tribal loyalties in Angola are strong, and the M.P.L.A. would have trouble administering the area without Savimbi's help. Even worse, the M.P.L.A. would have to deal with guerrilla activity, a debilitating prospect that would prevent reconstruction of the war-ravaged economy...
From his sanctuary in Zaïre's capital of Kinshasa, F.N.L.A. Leader Roberto made occasional forays into his shrinking beachhead in Angola. His top lieutenants, however, were already resigned to the prospect of reverting to guerrilla warfare-the minings, ambushes and hit-and-run raids that they used to practice (without much success) against the Portuguese...
...predominantly Protestant Ulster Defense Regiment were deployed in the county. In a more drastic move, some 150 men of the elite Special Air Services Regiment (SAS) will be sent to Ulster. The dispatch of this counter insurgency strike force, which is specially trained to conduct guerrilla operations behind enemy lines, indicated that for the first time since the troubles began six years ago, the British army will actively attempt to seek out and destroy the terrorists...