Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...terms in the House and two in the Senate: "Always attack, never defend." He believes that a pugnacity gap kept Democrats out of the White House through the '80s. Now, as he runs for President, he proposes to fill that gap by waging class warfare against George Bush and guerrilla operations against Democrats he considers timid. "The only thing Americans like less than a dirty fighter," he says, "is someone who won't fight back...
Harkin's Senate colleagues last week were anything but relaxed as he irked them with one of his guerrilla maneuvers. As chairman of an appropriations subcommittee, he proposed moving $3 billion from the Defense Department to popular education and health programs. That would violate the constraints in the 1990 deficit-reduction compromise reached after much anguish, but Harkin thinks the five-year plan inhibits flexibility and should be abolished. After an afternoon of contentious debate, Harkin lost by a vote of 69 to 28, as he knew he would. But among liberal political junkies who vote in primaries, he scored...
...July the eight-year-old war, which has mainly been a guerrilla conflict, suddenly turned into an even more bloody set-piece struggle. Tamil fighters, known as Tigers, dropped their usual tactics of ambush and evasion to launch a 3,000-strong force against a government base controlling Elephant Pass, a narrow, one-mile causeway, surrounded by marsh, beaches and sand dunes, that connects the mainland with the Tigers' heartland, the Jaffna Peninsula...
...enough to bring him to the attention of another reformer from the hinterland, the newly installed Communist Party General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. Gorbachev soon appointed Yeltsin first secretary of the Moscow city party committee. Thereupon the tall, bulky technocrat seemed to settle into a sort of permanent guerrilla war with his superiors in the Politburo and with his often corrupt underlings throughout the city's rambling bureaucracy...
...Group in Washington say that the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia has mounted three terrorist attacks inside the U.S.S.R. since the end of the gulf war. Others single out the murderous Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) in Peru, which makes violence against civilians a part of its guerrilla campaigns...