Word: guerrillas
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...process, Gingrich, a man willing to stick out his tongue at some venerable American institutions, has become a sort of Establishment guerrilla, attacking the institutions he badly wants to lead. In the election year of '94, when the Capitol dome appears in campaign commercials as something weirder and more sinister than Dracula's castle, Newt's Congress-bashing strategy is bearing fruit. It's the Gingrich gospel you hear in the words of voters like David Bywater, 26, a Nebraskan who is supporting Republican newcomer Jan Stoney against Senator Bob Kerrey. "Seniority means you've been around too long...
...what happens when the guerrilla fighter actually has to govern? That's the question for America as Gingrich amasses his powerful minority, which next week could, possibly, become a narrow majority in the House of Representatives. Even if it does not, a combination of Republicans and conservative Democrats will control Congress and bedevil Bill Clinton. All his political life, Gingrich has been perfecting his ability to disrupt the majority and move the opposition into an increasingly radical position on the right. But now that Gingrich has arrived, what does he want? His record as a builder is shaky at best...
...camps will provide another alternative. "We will attack, it is clear," says Karera. Gesturing toward a crowd gathered at a food-distribution center in Katale, he adds with a smile, "Do you really think this situation can last?" Foreign observers in Goma agree. "This is a classic environment for guerrilla incursions," says Captain Declan O'Brien, an Irish army logistics specialist seconded to the aid agency GOAL. "You can't have 30,000 soldiers just sitting here twiddling their thumbs...
...even explicitly called for a holy war to recapture Jerusalem, probably one of the most asinine, irresponsible things he has ever said or done. These statements only serve to enhance Arafat's macho, third-world guerrilla persona. Such immature posturing has no place in the peace process...
...down" their arms and accept the return of Aristide to power -- sentiments greeted by an unbelieving crowd with shouts of "Liar! Killer! Rapist!" He left, protected from a howling, spitting crowd by U.S. military police. Which seems strange, since in early summer he had threatened to organize a guerrilla war to kill any foreign troops that dared to land in Haiti...