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Harvard Law School graduate Jennifer K. Harbury spoke at the University for the first time Monday about her campaign to find her missing husband, a Guatemalan guerrilla leader...
...another room upstairs, a rebel shot Supreme Court Justice Carlos Giusti Acuna. Giusti died on the way to the hospital of a heart attack. During a fierce fire fight in which Lieut. Raul Jimenez Salazar was killed, another hostage, Agriculture Minister Rodolfo Munante Sanguinetti, had a close call. A guerrilla dashed into the room where he was hiding with several others and raised his rifle. But he did not pull the trigger. "He just left without shooting or lobbing a grenade at us," Munante recalled. "I got the impression the boy suddenly felt bad about what he and the rebels...
...vetted Tenet one more time. Then around 3 p.m., word reached the White House that Senators--Republican Senators--had swooned over Tenet that morning, crowding around him at a secret budget briefing and predicting his confirmation hearings would be a lovefest. Even Richard Shelby, the intelligence-committee chairman whose guerrilla warfare helped bring down Lake, "was falling in [Tenet's] lap," a White House aide told TIME. Hearing that, Clinton went on TV at 4:48 p.m. and nominated Tenet...
...marches at the head of that insurrection is Laurent Kabila, 56, a short, rotund guerrilla leader who has been battling Mobutu for more than 30 years. Since the early 1970s Kabila has waged a haphazard and by several accounts rather incompetent struggle against Mobutu's government from the jungle highlands around Lake Tanganyika. Although Kabila's Marxist-inspired People's Revolutionary Party received support from the Soviet Union, China and Cuba (Che Guevara once spent several months training with them), the obscure group never amounted to more than a nuisance. But the experience did enable Kabila to forge a valuable...
Harbury's claims were strengthened after another guerrilla, Santiago "Carlos" Lopez, claimed he saw Everardo alive...