Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bite. It was to avoid black rule that Smith broke away from Britain and issued his Unilateral Declaration of Independence nearly ten years ago. For a while, Rhodesia managed to get along pretty well on its own. But since 1972 it has been badly hurt. A spreading guerrilla war has taken nearly 1,000 lives. The worldwide recession proved devastating to an economy already damaged by a decade of international sanctions. Despite his troubles, Smith, 56, a gentleman cattle farmer, said defiantly only six weeks ago: "I don't accept the principle of government based on color." Black nationalists...
Chaotic Scene. Others fled along the seacoast to Lobito and across the borders to South Africa and South West Africa. In the north, more than a half-million black Angolans, who had fled to Zaire during the guerrilla war and returned in anticipation of independence, were cut off from food supplies and threatened with starvation. Luanda was a chaotic scene as people fled the fighting in the slums and suburbs and crowded into the downtown area in search of protection. Thousands of blacks jammed the beaches, waiting for steamers bound for the still tranquil ports in the north, while whites...
...Stick-and so it may again. At his press conference in Minneapolis last week, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger worried aloud that the quasi-U.S. colony, which straddles the strategic waterway that links the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, could become the focus of "a kind of nationalistic, guerrilla type of operation that we have not seen before in the Western Hemisphere." He was referring to the very real prospect of a bloody clash between U.S. troops in the zone and angry Panamanians who want to gain control of the canal by force...
Unexpected Help. Believed to be ultraleftist members of the Palestinian guerrilla movement, the kidnapers threatened that Morgan would be murdered unless the U.S. provided sizable food, clothing and construction aid for al Maslakh (Arabic for Slaughterhouse), a slum section of Beirut that was seriously damaged during the recent factional fighting. At week's end a private Lebanese committee began distributing free food in the slum. Two hours before a deadline expired, Morgan was released unharmed...
Died. Otto Skorzeny, 67, audacious Nazi SS colonel, saboteur and guerrilla fighter during World War II; of bronchial cancer; in Madrid. Skorzeny led the September 1943 glider-borne rescue of Benito Mussolini from the mountain-top hotel where he had been imprisoned by the pro-Allied Badoglio government. The exploit earned him the Iron Cross and der Fuhrer's gratitude, which he repaid by helping to thwart the July 1944 plot against Hitler, rallying SS units and halting a wave of executions so that Gestapo torturers could extract from conspirators the extent of the plot. As German armies pressed...