Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Francisco Altschul, a member of the rebel group FMLN's diplomatic commission said that a reduction in U.S. aid might induce the El Salvadoran government to make concessions to guerrilla leaders...
...politician who has the courage to say it in public." There is a rogue air of risk to his enterprise. Only those willing to risk obloquy will put his bumper stickers on their car, post his signs in their yard -- and so each such display becomes a kind of guerrilla statement. He revels in being attacked by "respectable" people. "The President of the U.S. attacked me ((when he ran for the state legislature)). The ex-President attacked me. The state party attacked me, the national party. The only one who didn't attack me was the Ayatullah Khomeini, and that...
After a week-long diplomatic gavotte over protocol, representatives of the four factions in Cambodia's civil war were all present in Jakarta last weekend. On hand were Prime Minister Hun Sen and leaders of two of the three guerrilla armies fighting to overthrow him: Son Sann and Khieu Samphan of the infamous Khmer Rouge. The third, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, pleaded a last- minute illness and sent a stand...
Pitts' professional fame -- and her reputation in some quarters as a "guerrilla preservationist" -- originated with an audacious maneuver she made 21 years ago in the seaside town of Cape May, N.J. The community is a melange of Victorian follies -- gingerbread homes with broad, windswept verandas -- that had once been a summer playground of the wealthy. But it fell from favor and became an oceanfront backwater...
...dismissed as a mere puppet of Vietnam. Baker himself suggested to the President two weeks ago that talks be opened with the Cambodian Prime Minister. In a decision made in typical Bush fashion -- maximum secrecy, high domestic political content -- Bush approved the move to withdraw diplomatic support of the guerrilla coalition but would go no further for now. That was still good news for those officials at the State Department, led by Under Secretary for Political Affairs Robert Kimmitt, who have been arguing for months that the U.S. should distance itself from the Khmer Rouge. Explains an official familiar with...