Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bibi was never comfortable with all this peacemaking, and now he?s bowing out as Israel?s prime minister with both guns blazing. Israeli warplanes pounded targets in Beirut and north Lebanon overnight Friday following a rocket attack on Israel by the Islamic guerrilla movement Hezbollah, and warned of more to come. Incoming prime minister Ehud Barak was not consulted on the decision, and he may prefer it that way. "Making peace with Syria, which controls Lebanon, is Barak?s priority, and he?s not going to let skirmishes with Hezbollah get in the way," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief...
...chance of winning. Many trauma-racked refugees, still wary of Serbian aggression, are sure to look to the K.L.A. for protection. The peace pact calls for the "demilitarization" of the K.L.A.--but not for its disarming. So the rebels will keep their small arms, the tools of choice for guerrilla fighters. Meanwhile, the U.N. will shoulder the heavy burden of setting up a Kosovar police force. Its first challenge will be to stamp out the K.L.A.'s revolutionary zeal. Albright labored to assure the 200,000 Serbs in Kosovo that the K.L.A. had pledged not to do them harm...
They seem just as thoughtful about most of their transgressions, all of which, except perhaps BASEketball, they still find funny. Orgazmo, which was written before South Park, they say is funny if thought of as a guerrilla film to be shown at Sundance to annoy local Mormons. The Down syndrome tape, which was recently purchased by the BBC, is funny, they say, not because of the newscasters but because of the uncomfortable reactions people have when dealing with the disabled. And the dancing penises? It's just that they still think dancing penises are funny...
...crossed the Caribbean in the rickety yacht Granma on the mad mission of invading Cuba and overthrowing the dictator Fulgencio Batista. Landing in a hostile swamp, losing most of their contingent, the survivors fought their way to the Sierra Maestra. A bit over two years later, after a guerrilla campaign in which Guevara displayed such outrageous bravery and skill that he was named comandante, the insurgents entered Havana and launched what was to become the first and only victorious socialist revolution in the Americas. The images were thereafter invariably gigantic. Che the titan standing up to the Yanquis, the world...
...mugs and posters, jingles at the end of key rings and jewelry, pops up in rock songs and operas and art shows. This apotheosis of his image has been accompanied by a parallel disappearance of the real man, swallowed by the myth. Most of those who idolize the incendiary guerrilla with the star on his beret were born long after his demise and have only the sketchiest knowledge of his goals or his life. Gone is the generous Che who tended wounded enemy soldiers, gone is the vulnerable warrior who wanted to curtail his love of life lest it make...