Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Latin America is mainly free from the guerrilla activity that plagued many of its nations for 15 years. Only in Argentina is it expected that terrorists might effectively disrupt the government in 1975. No end is in sight for the wave of kidnapings and killings by feuding rightists and leftists that have taken more than one life each day since President Juan Peron died last July...
Died. Lucio Cabañas, 37, Mexican guerrilla and folk hero; of wounds suffered in a gun battle with Federates; in the Sierra Madre del Sur above Acapulco. In a seven-year campaign of bank robberies, kidnapings, and slayings, Cabañ⅞as, a Communist, won the sympathy of the dirt-poor marijuana growers of Guerrero state and acquired a mystique reminiscent of Emiliano Zapata...
...with machine guns and Alsatian dogs patrolled the corridors. The defendants themselves sat in bullet-proof-glass enclosures-popping up occasionally to denounce the authorities as "swine" and "fascists." After Ulrike Meinhof took the witness stand and praised the freeing of Baader as "an outstanding example of urban guerrilla activity," few expected an acquittal...
...campaigns against the Somalis during the border fighting of the early 1960s, Aman had taken a conciliatory approach to such issues as student dissent, the fate of the detained ex-Ministers, and above all the problems faced by his home province of Eritrea, which has been torn by secessionist guerrilla violence ever since Ethiopia annexed...
...band of 120 men who range in rank from private to major. Though the council seems to be divided over exactly how Ethiopia should be ruled, a majority of its members obviously favor sweeping social reform. As Ethiopian nationalists, they also want to put down by force the Eritrean guerrilla movement. Aman refused to authorize the council to execute prisoners as it saw fit, and was reluctant to send troop reinforcements to Eritrea because he felt the problem of secession should be solved by granting the province greater autonomy...