Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...civil war that has bled West Africa's most desperate country for 14 months seemed to be near a conclusion at last. No sooner had the peace talks in nearby Togo adjourned, however, than Liberia's chief rivals for power began disputing the settlement's terms. Charles Taylor, the guerrilla leader whose army controls the countryside, objected to a provision disqualifying him, as well as opposing commanders, from heading a transitional regime in Monrovia. "I expect to head the interim government," he announced. Prince Yeduo Johnson, whose force killed President Samuel Doe in September, denounced the statement: "Charles Taylor...
Already afflicted by economic ills and a festering guerrilla insurgency, Peru is now plagued by an epidemic of cholera sweeping along its Pacific coast. As of last week, the disease had claimed 90 lives and infected at least 14,000 people. It is the first major outbreak of cholera in the western hemisphere since early in this century...
...though the prevailing opinion is that support will fall if casualties soar, the calculation may be more complicated. To begin with, the war in the gulf is not a unilateral guerrilla war to suppress a national liberation movement; it is a struggle to evict an invading army from a neighboring country it is occupying in defiance of the U.N. A TIME/CNN poll conducted last week by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman found that 79% expected U.S. casualties in a land war to be in the thousands or tens of thousands. Despite such catastrophic losses, 58% said they believe the war would...
When Idriss Deby and his rebel army rolled into the capital city of N'Djamena last week, the reaction of the 1,800-man French force stationed in the country was almost blase. As expected, the guerrilla leader quickly proclaimed himself President and promised to bring parliamentary democracy to his impoverished country...
...Iraq. Geographically, though, the two places are worlds apart. Senior correspondent James Wilde observed combat scenes for six years in Vietnam, "spending hours floundering around in swamps, up to the waist in water." Says Wilde, who is based in Rome: "Give me the desert anytime." The jungle terrain and guerrilla nature of the war in Southeast Asia made for unconventional fighting, recalls correspondent James Willwerth. During his 14 months in Vietnam, he witnessed ground won in bitter campaigns at great human cost changing hands again and again. By contrast, he says, a war in the gulf area would be more...