Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...America, a model of an underdeveloped, peasant society's coming peacefully into the modern world. No more. The country is not only showing the common strains of inflation-now running at about 30% a year, or about triple the U.S. rate-but is also troubled by terrorism and guerrilla warfare. In the past year, several prominent Mexican industrialists and politicians and a U.S. diplomat have been kidnaped by the terrorists. The diplomat, Terrance Leonhardy, consul general in Guadalajara, was later released after his abductors' demands were...
...Monterrey's industrial patriarch, Eugenic Garza Sada, 82. Yet a fourth group, the Party of the Poor, led by a former schoolteacher, Lucio Cabañas, operates from the rugged mountains of Guerrero State near Acapulco, where it is successfully eluding 10,000 army troops. None of the guerrilla groups are believed to number more than a few score members...
...name is taken from an abortive 1967 guerrilla attack on a Chihuahua army post...
...empire. He signed an agreement in Algiers granting independence to the 600,000 people of the West African territory of Portuguese Guinea, henceforth to be known as Guinea-Bissau. It was the first official move by Portugal to give independence to its African territories, which have been racked by guerrilla war; Angola and Mozambique will be next. And it came four months and a day after a coup in Lisbon paved the way for the end of the 500-year-old empire. Despite the jubilation in the steamy African capital of Bissau and the ending of the 13-year...
...fact, both sides would probably find guerrilla warfare an unstanchable wound. The Turks would undoubtedly keep their promise to be harsh occupiers. The Greeks at the same time would most likely keep their promise to fight the Turks no matter what the odds against them. "Wars of liberation are never won without sacrifices," said a C.L.A. manifesto, "and our people are aware of the possible consequences of our actions." The hope on all sides is that Ankara and Athens can begin talking before the killing on Cyprus starts again...