Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...team isn't dependent on stars, it develops an immunity against injury. Centerfielder Bernie Williams, shortstop Derek Jeter and relief pitcher Mariano Rivera, the team's three best and most reliable players, have all spent time on the disabled list this season. But like members of some impassioned guerrilla army, as each man has fallen, another has risen in his place. It is to this fungibility of parts that one must attribute their astonishing record of 68-23 through their first 91 games, for a winning percentage of .747. That pace, if sustained, would put them in reach...
...jacket off and his tie loosened, is introduced to Gani Shehu, 31, who identifies himself as Rugova's party leader in the village. K.L.A. "morale officer" Lum Haxhiu, 40, fondles a European assault rifle as he tells Holbrooke he was formerly a poet in Denmark. Outside, a bearded guerrilla puffing a Marlboro stands watch decked out in a black Ninja suit, cellular phone and holstered pistol. The unprepossessing leaders illustrate yet another conundrum facing Holbrooke: the K.L.A. has no effective political arm; fighters are already splitting into factions; and power is so diffuse that even if they succeed in liberating...
American drug warriors, welcome to your nightmare--a do-it-yourself guerrilla narcotic spread by paranoid insomniacs who think they see federal agents through every keyhole, even when it's just the Domino's Pizza man. In cities large and small across the West and Midwest crank belt, from Oregon to Iowa, where the drug is known as the poor man's cocaine in towns that barely had cocaine in the first place, the drug arrives nonstop from every direction and by every imaginable route. Wrapped by the ounce and the pound in duct-tape eggs that can be stashed...
...Berezovsky?s money was one of the most significant factors in Yeltsin?s reelection in 1996, but Yeltsin fired the oil and media baron from a government position late last year. ?Now Berezovsky?s won a powerful government post at a time when he?s waging a political guerrilla war against Yeltsin,? says Quinn-Judge. ?He may be a lone operator, but he?s an extremely effective one.? And that?s bad news for the Russian president...
When the communist guerrilla, then known only as Brother No. 1, took power in April 1975, he vowed to turn back the clock to "Year Zero." In the name of a bizarre blend of peasant romanticism and radical Maoism, the Khmer Rouge conducted a reign of terror intended to give birth to an agrarian utopia. At the point of their guns, they emptied Cambodia's cities, abolished money and markets, shut down schools and Buddhist monasteries and forced the entire country to wear black pajamas as a sign of "instant communism." Inspired by China's Cultural Revolution, Pol Pot carried...