Word: guerrillas
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...almost at once. Though Mao's guerrilla strategy was in strong disfavor with the Moscow-influenced "internationalists" at Communist Party headquarters in Shanghai, Deng, who had become exasperated with Soviet-style conventional warfare, was convinced that Mao's tactics were right. From 1931 to 1935, as the two worked to establish a Red Army base in the south-central province of Jiangxi, a mutual affection ripened that was almost brotherly. When Mao was denounced and demoted by pro-Russian elements of the party as an "escapist" for advocating a hit-and-run campaign of attrition, Deng was ousted along with...
NABATIYEH, Lebanon: Israel's "security zone" in southern Lebanon has turned into a war zone once again. Hezbollah guerrillas and the Israeli army have been trading deadly blows since Thursday, when a clash resulted in the death of one of the guerrillas. At 5:30 a.m. Friday, local time, Hezbollah responded by peppering an Israeli-occupied border enclave in the zone with machine-gun fire and mortar shells, killing one Israeli soldier and wounded three others, according to Israeli security officials. Israel gunners retaliated with three hours of heavy artillery fire on suspected guerrilla hideouts in the vicinity of villages...
NABATIYEH, Lebanon: Israel's "security zone" in southern Lebanon has turned into a war zone once again. Hezbollah guerrillas and the Israeli army have been trading deadly blows since Thursday, when a clash resulted in the death of one of the guerrillas. At 5:30 a.m. Friday, local time, Hezbollah responded by peppering an Israeli-occupied border enclave in the zone with machine-gun fire and mortar shells, killing one Israeli soldier and wounded three others, according to Israeli security officials. Israel gunners retaliated with three hours of heavy artillery fire on suspected guerrilla hideouts in the vicinity of villages...
...must think of other options -- the option of a total withdrawal from the Golan does not exist from our point of view." It probably won't be that easy. "Netanyahu knows he can't separate the pieces of the puzzle,? reports TIME?s Bill Stewart. ?Syria wages a guerrilla war on Israel through Hizbollah. So, Israel cannot have peace, or safely withdraw from southern Lebanon, until it satisfies Syria with the Golan Heights.? Netanyahu's hard line on the Golan may be primarily a negotiating ploy. Israeli support for the continued presence in southern Lebanon has been waning, especially after...
...must think of other options -- the option of a total withdrawal from the Golan does not exist from our point of view." It probably won't be that easy. "Netanyahu knows he can't separate the pieces of the puzzle,? reports TIME?s Bill Stewart. ?Syria wages a guerrilla war on Israel through Hizbollah. So, Israel cannot have peace, or safely withdraw from southern Lebanon, until it satisfies Syria with the Golan Heights.? Netanyahu's hard line on the Golan may be primarily a negotiating ploy. Israeli support for the continued presence in southern Lebanon has been waning, especially after...