Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...born in Szechwan to a well-to-do family. Like Chou, Teng went to France on a work-study program when he was 16. Before he left Paris six years later, he had joined the Chinese Communist Party. He returned home (by way of Moscow) to become a guerrilla commander after the Communist split with Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang in 1927. Also like Chou, he is a veteran of Mao's legendary Long March, which until recently was essential for anyone hoping to rise high in the party hierarchy. In 1954, after service as Minister of Finance and Vice...
Shootout in Huambo. The F.N.L.A.-UNITA coalition is one purely of military necessity - and a tenuous one at that, since the two groups have strong tribal rivalries. The F.N.L.A. is almost to tally Bakongo, UNITA almost totally Ovimbundu. In 1961, at the start of the guerrilla war for independence in north ern Angola, the Bakongo savagely murdered and mutilated hundreds of the Ovimbundu tribe, which has never forgotten or forgiven...
...remnant of the Movement of the Revolutionary Left (MIR). Gutierez, wounded in a Shootout with the secret police, was brought to a convent in Santiago. Monsignor Maroto summoned Dr. Cassidy, who drained abscessed bullet wounds in Gutierez's leg. Another priest, Fernando Salas, later smuggled Gutierez and a guerrilla companion, Maria Elena Bachman, into the embassy of the Holy See. Wheelan and Maroto were arrested along with Cassidy; Salas and another priest gave themselves up. All were subsequently released. None of the priests has charged that he was tortured...
Both speeches were little more than exercises in fantasy. In fact, it was the Argentine military that had acted in both situations, adroitly defusing the coup and smashing the terrorist assault in the bloodiest government-guerrilla engagement to date. While Juan Perón's petulant widow went through the motions of governing as if in a trance and the nation hung ever more precariously on the precipice of political and economic chaos, many Argentines wondered why the military did not simply end the charade and officially take command...
...contrast, last week's guerrilla assault on an arsenal nine miles from the capital in the industrial suburb of Monte Chingolo was a hard-fought military engagement that cost at least 115 lives-85 guerrillas, seven government troops, three policemen and 20 civilians. The attack was apparently a joint operation of the People's Revolutionary Army (ERP), a left-wing guerrilla group that has been fighting government troops for years in Tucuman province, and the Montone-ros, the terrorist arm of left-wing Peronists, who specialize in urban assassinations and high-ransom kidnapings. According to the army...