Word: guerrillas
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...novel The Turner Diaries is an action thriller: a hardy band of U.S. patriots turns to guerrilla warfare to overthrow a tyrannical government. But the book is actually a bigot's fantasy. The guerrilla fighters are neo-Nazis who finance their revolution through bank robberies and counterfeiting, blow up the FBI building in Washington, D.C., murder American Jews, blacks and Hispanics, and use nuclear bombs to annihilate Israel...
...limited number of nuclear weapons in a "surgical operation" to intimidate the Chinese and destroy their nuclear facilities. But, according to Ogarkov, a bomb or two would hardly annihilate a country like China, and the Chinese, with their vast population and deep knowledge and experience of guerrilla warfare, would fight unrelentingly. The Soviet Union would be mired in an endless war with consequences similar to those suffered by America in Viet...
...mindless fanaticism is the same, and the revolutionary jargon sounds all too familiar. After almost ten years of somnolent underground existence, Western Europe's urban guerrilla movements are once more wielding terrorism as a weapon for political disruption. The downfall of capitalism remains a long- term goal, but the immediate targets and the strategy have changed: in a brutal perversion of Western Europe's peace movement, the latest guerrilla campaign of bombings and assassinations is aimed chiefly at Western European defense installations and the 16-nation North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Equally ominous is evidence that terrorist bands in West Germany...
Beyond the rhetoric, police in Belgium and West Germany point out that both guerrilla groups used plastic explosives from a cache of 800 kilograms stolen last year from a quarry in Belgium. Last week, too, French police revealed that just before General Audran was shot, his eldest daughter received a phone call from a woman who asked in a heavy German accent whether her father was home. The French terrorists seem to take pains to identify themselves with their West German counterparts. After Audran's assassination, for example, Action Directe attributed the killing to what it called "the Elizabeth...
...President intends to ask Congress for an extra $150 million for El Salvador. Central America is expected to continue to receive a large portion of the military-aid allotment. The White House also wants Congress to nearly double the $9 million for Peru to help it fend off guerrilla insurgents. Spain, Portugal, Turkey and the Philippines, which are host to U.S. bases, get a high priority for military aid; assistance to the Philippines will jump from $45 million to a proposed $100 million to help it fight a growing rebel movement...