Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...diplomats on Cyprus see partition as a surefire prescription for a prolonged guerrilla war along the tightly guarded border that slices across the island and its ancient walled capital of Nicosia. Nonetheless, Turkish Cypriots last week stepped up resettlement efforts in their acquired territory. Shortly before Denktas. proclaimed a separate state, TIME Correspondent Erik Amfitheatrof paid a visit to the Turkish section and sent this report...
...exchange caught a group of 30 Americans, including the local consul, in a social club; they gamely sang John Brown's Body and other traditional songs as tracer bullets arced overhead. A U.S. communications base was hit in another assault. Throughout the week, Ethiopian planes bombed and strafed guerrilla concentrations and mud-hut villages suspected of supporting the rebels. By week's end, according to some accounts, as many as 2,000 people had been killed...
...barracks and refused to leave. Instead of taking the sensible precaution of sending soldiers to protect the city from unrest, Velasco issued ultimatum after ultimatum to the strikers. Then he sent in tanks-Soviet-built T-55 models that smashed down the barracks doors as rangers trained in anti-guerrilla warfare streamed into the building. The battle was quickly over. Some of the defenders were subdued inside the building; others ran out onto the plaza with their hands...
...contingency planning assumes a Saudi response, probably by sabotage. The most serious blows are anticipated not in the oilfields themselves but on the complicated loading docks on the Gulf. To overcome any destruction of facilities, U.S. engineers would arrive with piping and other equipment. Other guerrilla activity, in a sandy area of high visibility for patrolling Phantom jets, is expected to be minimal and easily surmountable. The plan also assumes that the Soviet Union would offer no military opposition to the takeover, but might move its forces into neighboring Iraq in a show of force. The Soviets, in the view...
...American CIA, which is popularly regarded as having propped up the junta. The works of German Playwright Bertolt Brecht, many of them banned by the colonels for their Marxist themes, are also enjoying a revival. Bookstores are stocking titles like Carlos Marighella's manual The Urban Guerrilla; a large readership is virtually guaranteed for any work by or about Che Guevara...