Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That tumultuous reception marked perhaps the high point in the extraordinary career of the Jerusalem-born guerrilla-politician, who is now recognized by all the Arab states as chief spokesman for the cause of an independent state of Palestine. In a move that added to particularly high tension and fears of still another war in the Middle East, Arafat came to the U.S. to lead off a two-week debate on a controversial proposal that would change the designation of the Palestinians, in U.N. documents, from refugees to a "displaced nation...
Oppressed peoples have often turned to violence as the first step in their fight for nationhood. If it were not for the guerrilla war carried out by the Irish Republican Army, for example, the Republic of Ireland might never have gained its independence. The unsavory reputation of the I.R.A. did not prevent its onetime leader, Sean MacBride, from receiving the Nobel Peace Prize last month for his subsequent crusade for human justice in Amnesty International...
Bomb Blasts. At least two nations oppose the lifting of sanctions. Chile has complained that Cuba flew arms to the late Marxist President Salvador Allende before he was overthrown. Uruguay insists that Castro still underwrites the Tupamaro guerrilla movement. Bolivia, whose military government last week put down an army revolt, and Paraguay may also vote no on the grounds that they are subject to Castroite subversion. Almost as if to underscore such claims, bomb blasts rocked both the Bolivian embassy and the Brazilian Cultural Institute in Quito before the conference...
...name is Abu Ammar), who has led the organization since 1968. Al Fatah has a broad base of middle-class support and no definable ideology other than the liberation of Palestine. Since its first raid into Israel on New Year's Eve 1965, Fatah has carried out mostly routine guerrilla missions. The most recent target was the Israeli seaside town of Nahariyeh, where three guerrillas last June went ashore in a rubber boat, killed four Israelis and then were shot down. Fatah is generally opposed to overseas commando operations...
Buren is not bad at sounding like St. Just, but-alas for the purity of his sentiments-the Museum of Modern Art now enters, arms hospitably outstretched, clutching this inoffensive guerrilla to its bosom. If you look closely, you can just see the Burens in the MOMA show: four bland panels of black-and-white stripes, cut to the size of the museum windows and pasted up. What Buren's work really seems to be about is words: vacuous configurations gift-wrapped in fighting language, revealing the curiously transparent game of certification by which art posturers now proclaim their...