Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sizwe). It has less of a story line, and it's more cerebral. The introduction of the arguments of Antigone early in the play is done with an abruptness and step-by-step repetition (for the benefit of slow Winston) that is really reminiscent of the didacticism of guerrilla theatre...
Such talk is heartening to Smith's white electorate, but it may not sustain his beleaguered country much longer. The guerrilla war being waged by impatient blacks is expected to intensify later this year. The black rulers of newly independent Mozambique are in a position to close their ports to Rhodesian trade whenever they choose, and the pressure from South Africa is bound to continue. Vorster, convinced of the need for an accommodation with black Africa, has already removed 2,000 South African paramilitary policemen from Rhodesia. He has also succeeded in persuading South African cigarette-makers to reduce...
...death sentence had been commuted, possibly because of his U.S. citizenship. He was the only battalion leader to survive the Rising. Amnestied in 1917, he returned to a hero's welcome in Dublin and leadership of a new party, Sinn Fein (Ourselves Alone). When the 1920-21 guerrilla war against Britain's "Black and Tan" occupying army led to Ireland's partition into Ulster and the Irish Free State, De Valera joined the "irreconcilables" of the Irish Republican Army in a cruelly scarring civil war against supporters of the treaty...
...ching, 69. As one of the initial victims of the Cultural Revolution, Lo was publicly humiliated by fanatic young Red Guards as far back as 1966. He was notorious in those days as an advocate of building a modern army equipped with sophisticated weapons rather than relying on the guerrilla warfare concepts of Mao. Thus, China watchers see his reinstatement in the Communist Party as a sign that China will be moving more toward the kind of elite, professional military that Mao has long resisted...
...liberating humanity and the world. Sin is anything that resists or undercuts this process, or any oppression of one person-or group-by another. Salvation lies in a commitment to love of neighbor and thus a willingness to fight oppression, with revolution if need be. Camilo Torres, the Colombian guerrilla priest who was shot down by government troops in 1966, is the folk hero of liberation theology...