Word: guerrillas
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...trying to overthrow the Marxist Sandinista regime that has ruled since 1979. Faced with growing opposition in Congress to his plan, which even some Republicans view as unwise, the President went on a personal crusade for $14 million in assistance to the rebel forces. Reagan compared the disparate guerrilla factions, whom he calls freedom fighters, to America's Founding Fathers, and took to picturing their cause in terms little short of apocalyptic. Said Reagan: "We cannot have the U.S. walk away from one of the greatest moral challenges in postwar history...
...elected, Garcia will inherit daunting domestic challenges. Many of Peru's 19.2 million people live in appalling poverty, with an average per capita annual income of only $867. In the Andes, the army is at war with Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path), a guerrilla group that advocates a Maoist-style revolution. Be cause of fears of terrorism, 105,000 army troops and police were placed on alert on election day. A dynamite blast, blamed by police on guerrillas in the central Andes city of Huancayo, killed two children and wounded four other people. But a call by Sendero Luminoso to boycott...
...Shiites and Kurds have reportedly achieved the outline of a deal, in which Jaafari will replace Allawi as prime minister, with the presidency going to aging Kurdish guerrilla leader Jalal Talabani. One of the two vice presidencies will go to Adel Abdul-Mahdi, the current finance minister who is also on the Shiite list, while the other will go to an as-yet unnamed Sunni - possibly current interim president Ghazi al-Yawer, although he is also believed to be a top contender for the role of speaker of the Assembly, which will also be reserved for a Sunni...
...large. In particular, Shamil Basayef, the mastermind of the horrific Moscow theater and Beslan hostage takings, runs free. In fact, Basayef may well feel that his unrestrained tactics have been vindicated with the evident failure of Maskhadov’s moderate approach; whereas Maskhadov’s conventional guerrilla tactics—even the occasional call for a peaceful solution—led him to ineffectual death in a hovel, Baseyef, operating without moral compass or any sense of restraint, continues to achieve spectacular “successes,” such as the Beslan triumph...
...great lifesavers of modern warfare along with quick-clotting powders and ultrasound units that fit in backpacks, how many more lives and limbs might have been saved if the humvees that were meant for transport in noncombat zones had been equipped with the armor necessary for a guerrilla war that has no front lines, no safe havens...