Word: guerrillas
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...provide more than just sympathy to the Sandinistas of Nicaragua, the Marxist rulers of Ethiopia, the Viet Nam-backed puppet government of Kampuchea and the Babrak Karmal regime of Afghanistan. In effect, Gorbachev was offering his own rejoinder to the Reagan doctrine of American support for anti-Communist guerrilla movements...
...madness came in a variety of forms. In southern Lebanon, Israel's measured troop withdrawal has bogged down in an increasingly violent guerrilla war conducted by Shi'ite Muslim activists who have been attacking the departing troops at every opportunity. Those assaults, and Israeli countermeasures, last week claimed at least 60 lives in some of the bloodiest clashes since resistance to the Israeli occupation first surfaced 21 months...
Cienfuegos was the highest-ranking Salvadoran officer to be gunned down in the capital since the guerrilla conflict began. Almost two years ago, members of the F.P.L. took responsibility for the murder of U.S. Navy Lieut. Commander Albert Schaufelberger, an attache at the U.S. embassy. Informed of the Cienfuegos killing, President Jose Napoleon Duarte denounced the crime as part of a leftist policy of "urban destabilization...
Almost from the beginning of the ZANU-ZAPU dispute, the Mugabe government / maintained that heavily armed followers of Nkomo, remnants of his old guerrilla units, were making Matabeleland unsafe with a campaign of antigovernment violence and banditry. That contention was underlined last week when the government announced that its forces had discovered six unmarked graves in the Lupane area of Matabeleland and unearthed the corpses of six foreign tourists, including two Americans, who had disappeared in the region in July 1982. Mugabe said that the band of 22 dissidents allegedly responsible for the murders was identified as having connections with...
...funds would mean lifeblood to the contras. A vote not to would be an enormous morale boost to the Sandinistas. Each side knows that a successful major offensive in the next few weeks could help sway fence-sitters on Capitol Hill, and fighting has accordingly intensified. The fitful guerrilla war has spread to eight of the country's 16 departments, and the death toll is mounting. In the first two weeks of February alone, the Sandinistas claimed 189 contra casualties...