Word: guerrillas
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...autumn ritual, like football games and the first frost. America's A team of actresses, who would never accept summer-movie roles as Rambo's guerrilla girlfriend or Michael J. Fox's mom, invigorate Hollywood's ration of serious films. The seminar is in session, film scholars. It is the season to pay attention, even if you want to cut class...
...fact this vocal conscience comes out of a long tradition. There were activist antecedents in the alternative culture of the '60s, but those were selfabsorbed and, as both Browne and Van Zandt point out, were intermingled with the drug culture. Perhaps inspired by such punk guerrilla bands as Britain's Clash and the Sex Pistols in the late '70s, rock has buried higher consciousness under high conscience. "It's a rebirth of the spirit we had in the '60s, but it is a little more pragmatic," says Don Henley, whose performance of his A Month of Sundays at FarmAid...
...message was tapped out on an old-fashioned Morse telegraph key. It came from the province of Paktia in eastern Afghanistan and was received by a guerrilla listening post on the Pakistani border. "We have been without sleep for 48 hours," the report read. "It is the biggest battle of the war. We have lost many men, but we will not lose the war." The terse communication was signed by Maulana Jalaluddin Haqani, commander of an Afghan partisan group known as Hesbi Islam, or Islamic Party...
...campaign showed that the Soviets are apparently determined to shut down the clandestine CIA arms pipeline from Pakistan that feeds the Afghan guerrillas. They also probably intended the assault as intimidation against the government of Pakistan's President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, who has provided staging areas for guerrilla forces...
...performance, sent Duarte a message congratulating him on "the speed and professionalism" of the arrests. For all the public back patting, however, at least one of the arrests hinged as much on luck as on efficient police work. According to Reynaldo Lopez Nuila, Salvadoran public security vice minister, a guerrilla suspect identified as "Jose" had been picked up in California and, together with other illegal immigrants, was deported to El Salvador, where security police arrested him. The two other suspects, Lopez Nuila said, had been arrested earlier in an upholstery shop in downtown San Salvador. Only one of those captured...