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...hour of make-belive firing squad executions of "communist sympathizers," the play freedom fighters proclaimed victory from the steps of City Hall and declared Rhode Island's capital under martial law. The phony Contras were quick to agree with President's description of their Yankee forebears: shouted one "guerrilla" on the prowl for suspected communists, "we're not terrorists, we're fighting for democracy." Brown Daily Herala...
...dealing with Colombia's guerrillas. The traditional Latin American response to guerrillas is a military one. We are trying to change that. On March 30, the (Moscow-lining) Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (F.A.R.C.) will formally constitute themselves as a political party. They are opting for the path of elections rather than insurrection, as agreed in the truce we signed a year ago. Other guerrilla groups say they are seriously considering following the F.A.R.C. This shows that dialogue is viable...
...could hardly raise my head to fire at the men climbing toward us," said Squad Leader Ngun Chin, 29, describing the Vietnamese artillery rounds that rained last week on Green Hill, the last major Khmer resistance stronghold on the Thai-Kampuchean border. All night long, Chin and his 32 guerrilla fighters were pinned down in a trench at the edge of a steep escarpment that the defenders had hoped would protect them against being overrun. But shortly before dawn, Chin's squad received orders to withdraw, and the camp's entire complement of 3,000 guerrilla fighters pulled back into...
...Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the former Cambodian head of state, capped a triumphant Vietnamese dry-season offensive that has forced the Khmer resistance to reassess its six-year-old insurgency. In a series of strikes against strongholds of non-Communist and Communist resistance groups, the Vietnamese had pushed the guerrillas out of one border sanctuary after another. As the fighting raged, 230,000 Kampuchean refugees sought shelter across the frontier in Thailand. In ousting the resistance from its redoubts, the Vietnamese also cut supply lines that link Thailand with guerrilla groups operating deep within Kampuchea...
...days after the fall of Green Hill, Sihanouk, who nominally heads a tripartite coalition of guerrilla groups including the Communist Khmer Rouge, arrived at the Nong Bua (Lotus Pond) Temple in the Thai town of Surin for the cremation of one of his generals killed during the campaign. The Prince greeted his followers and conferred quietly with the general's widow. "The Vietnamese victory appears to be very impressive," he later conceded. "They have attacked all of the resistance bases. But the truth is that the coalition forces are far from dead. We have lost our biggest stronghold...