Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...months of difficult and risky bargaining and concluded in a marathon 32-hour negotiating session captained by British Prime Minister Tony Blair, whose country was the source of much of the torment of Ireland, permits those who want a united Ireland to work for that goal through politics, not guerrilla warfare, and permits those who want to keep Northern Ireland part of Britain to retain that status until a majority of those in the North decide otherwise. It was not lost on the parties who signed up for peace last week that the agreement came nearly on the anniversary...
...Hanoi finally withdrew its troops in 1989, he longed for an end to the fighting. His wife and three children, however, were kept as virtual hostages in the Khmer Rouge stronghold of Anlong Veng, close to the Thai border, and he had little choice but to stay with the guerrilla army in its fight against the Phnom Penh government. "Life was very hard," See says. "All that time in the jungle, I regret...
...three-decades-long history of the Khmer Rouge, one of the century's most brutal, self-destructive regimes. More than a million people died during the rule of the Khmer Rouge between 1975 and 1979. Since then tens of thousands more have been killed and maimed by the guerrilla war and the country's treacherous minefields...
...rundown Unitarian Fellowship hall across town and was catered by Food Not Bombs, a group that collects unused groceries from supermarkets and restaurants to be served to the homeless. Workshops on legal defenses against FCC equipment seizures and on how to send programs over the Internet drew guerrilla broadcasters from eight Western and Midwestern states--mirroring a similar East Coast conference held in Philadelphia a week earlier...
...Airwaves, and mounted a how-to Website www.radio4all.org) When the FCC sought an injunction against his station (motto: "Turn On, Tune In, Take Over"), a federal judge in Oakland, Calif., turned the agency down on First Amendment grounds. "This is about free speech," says Dunifer, presiding at the guerrilla gathering. "The FCC excludes all but the wealthy from having a voice. It should open the spectrum to noncommercial community radio...