Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That's what happened in Peru, a country burdened with appalling poverty, gaping social and racial inequalities, and a brutal, beleaguered military that is fighting two guerrilla movements and the personal armies of various drug lords. When so much of the populace fears death by starvation, disease or gunfire, the state is not just weak -- it has virtually ceased to exist. When the people see themselves as victims rather than beneficiaries of the system, they have little use for the ballot box and little regard for constitutional procedure. All they want is a modicum of safety, equity and discipline, which...
...former Senator from Massachusetts and the Arkansas Governor emerged as joint front runners. Bob Kerrey, losing badly everywhere, quit the race, and Tom Harkin's war chest is empty. Jerry Brown's narrow win in Colorado will allow him to continue receiving federal matching funds to wage a guerrilla operation...
...poet-guerrilla so idealized by "friends of China" had other, more public failings, and Salisbury charts them in detail. Impatient with the slow pace of economic development, Mao launched the catastrophic Great Leap Forward in 1958. The movement forced farmers into communes, abolished private property and set up backyard steel mills to speed China into the industrial age. By 1960 even seed grains were exhausted and millions were starving to death...
Today his task is to deliver a eulogy for a fallen comrade. Before entering the scruffy cemetery on the edge of the township, Mcerwa takes off his T shirt, emblazoned with a picture of a guerrilla fighter triumphantly holding up an AK-47 rifle, and pulls on a dashiki, a loose-fitting African tunic. "Power!" he shouts to the 100 assembled mourners. "One Azania! One nation!" As a hot morning sun beats down, he angrily accuses a white-owned chemical company of murdering his comrade by exposing him to dangerous toxins on the job. "They think black life...
...words to Blacks in the audience, Muhammad said of whites, "They would stab you, stick a knife in your back in a minute. "Saying "We must fight the evil of the white man," Muhammad told Black students to "go into the sewers and the subways and actually carry out guerrilla warfare...