Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...something must give in 1977. He speaks of restraining "the students" (at the University of Panama) as another general might speak of withholding his paratroopers. Secretary Kissinger has said that if the U.S. fails to renegotiate the status of the canal, "ten years from now we may face a guerrilla war in the Western Hemisphere...
...regime says these figures are greatly exaggerated; a few abuses have taken place (Pinochet says twelve officers were recently jailed for mistreating prisoners). In any case, firm measures are needed to deal with the guerrilla threat: look at Argentina, where leftist terrorists are assassinating and kidnaping people every...
...Guerrillas is thus conspicuously short of heroes. Far from ennobling him, his suffering in prison has left Roche passive and chastened. "You must understand," he tells Jane, "I have always accepted authority." Jane talks fashionably about the world going up in flames, not because she cares for the wretched of the earth but because she is a snob; she does not believe that life could be better, only that existence for people of her breeding is not as nice as it once was. In between lurid fantasies of sexual violence, Ahmed is petulantly worried that a revolution...
Just about the only real growth industry in inflation-racked Argentina these days is the security business. The unceasing wave of terrorism has created a booming market for private armies of security agents who follow likely targets of guerrilla violence around the city during the day and watch over their sleep at night. The guards wear bullet-proof vests and carry shotguns, often discreetly wrapped in brown paper. On the street their coats bulge over hidden hand grenades. They stand guard in front of hotel rooms, communicating by walkie-talkie with their colleagues outside. Trip wires and hidden microphones protect...
Given the gloomy realities in Angola, that did not seem irrational. At least 10,000 people have died in the past year of fighting-more than the total for the entire 13-year guerrilla war for independence. Last week combined F.N.L.A.-UNITA units were closing in on Luanda. To the south, a 1,200-man F.N.L.A.-UNITA force under the command of M.P.L.A. Defector Daniel Chipenda and spearheaded by 150 Portuguese, South African and Rhodesian mercenaries captured the tactically critical towns of Benguela and Lobito. Though the mechanized troops are still 400 miles from Luanda, there were few obstacles left...