Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...does try to subvert or overthrow unfriendly governments?as in the Congo (now Zaire) in 1963 and Ghana in 1966. In Mexico, authorities uncovered a KGB-sponsored guerrilla group in 1971. Just last week officials in Belgrade disclosed an unsuccessful Soviet attempt to set up a pro-Moscow underground party in Yugoslavia. Moreover, the KGB's Disinformation Department tries to sow suspicion abroad by circulating false rumors and forged documents. A case in point: the KGB campaign now going on to convince Indians that American exchange scholars and Peace Corps volunteers are actually CIA agents...
Earlier this month the Montoneros, a leftist guerrilla organization that helped return Perón to power in 1973, accused Isabel of "harboring imperialists and oligarchs" and then declared war on her government. Issuing their "War Communiqué No. 1" at a clandestine press conference, the Montoneros threatened a terrorist campaign of arson, assassination, sabotage and bombing. As a chilling reminder of their past exploits, they also released a detailed report of how they kidnaped former President Pedro Eugenic Aramburu in 1970, stuffed him into a truckload of hay, and transported him to a ranch outside Buenos Aires, where...
...fact, he said not one word during the two-minute ceremony. He is so embittered by the rush toward decolonization that having twice tried but failed to gain for himself stronger powers, he is now said to be on the verge of resigning. He is certain that the guerrilla movements that are now taking control in the territories will lead them toward Communism...
Angry Whites. That could well happen in Mozambique, where Frelimo, the leftist, black-led guerrilla group, will have two-thirds of the government portfolios until next June, when full independence will be granted. Angered at news of the agreement, many Mozambican whites (2.7% of the population) charged that they had been sold out by Lisbon. They want to set up an independent, white-dominated government along the lines of regimes in neighboring Rhodesia and South Africa. Last week white settlers belonging to militant organizations-one ominously named the Dragons of Death-seized the radio station in Lourenço Marques...
They were geologists searching for oil when suddenly they became pawns in Ethiopia's guerrilla war. They fell into guerrilla hands on March 26 when their helicopter went down in Eritrea province. Ever since, the men-Powers W. Case, 36, John W. Rogers, 50, both Texans, and Canadian Clifford James, 27, all employees of Tenneco, Inc., along with U.N. Geologist Matti Tavela, 54, an American working in Ethiopia-have been held. Their captors are members of the Eritrean Liberation Front (E.L.F.), which is waging a bloody secessionist battle. Tenneco has already agreed to an E.L.F. demand for $3 million...