Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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PERU. President Alberto Fujimori is credited with knocking the wind out of the brutal Shining Path insurgency by capturing or killing its leadership, but 1,692 people were killed in guerrilla and counterinsurgency violence last year. Terrorism caused $1 billion worth of damage...
...power to tempt humankind. If humankind was created just a little lower than the angels, what are we to make of an angel who has failed? Is he then not just like us -- yet immortally so? For poets like Milton, Satan was the archetypal antihero, the rebel waging eternal guerrilla warfare against his Creator. "To reign is worth ambition though in hell: Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n." Indeed, to some, Satan even provides lessons in piety. The Sufis, the mystics of Islam, imagined that the pride of Iblis may have been blind ideological purity...
Oppenheimer's views on AALARM were clearer. "We're waging general guerrilla warfare against AALARM in about as happy-go-lucky and satirical and plucky a way as you can when confronting Nazism...
...sophisticated Latin American businessmen are now using Miami not just for hit-and-run business trips but also as a base of operations that offers a security they can't find in their own countries. (Even Miami's violent-crime rate pales by comparison with the kidnappings, terrorism and guerrilla warfare that many Latins face in cities like Rio de Janeiro, Medellin or Lima.) "Venezuelans, Brazilians and increasing numbers of Argentines are investing in Miami, developing hotels and purchasing malls," says Suquet. "They are setting up businesses here, buying homes in Coral Gables or Cocoplum, sending their kids to Gulliver...
...Guerrilla theater note, environmental division, bad-pun subdivision: last month Sierra Club members in Jackson, Wyoming, operating as the Not Yours, Mine, Mining Co., staked a claim to U.S. Forest Service land, now leased to the Snow King Resort and used for a ski lift. The point was to demonstrate that under archaic U.S. law, such claiming of the right to lease public land for mining is entirely legal. At press time, plans for actual mining were not firm...