Word: guerrillas
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...missions. The flights, manned by pilots from the U.S. 224th Military Intelligence Battalion, have been under way since last month. Supplementing similar missions by longer-range RC-130 reconnaissance aircraft from Howard Air Force Base in Panama, the flights are intended to help fend off an anticipated increase in guerrilla activity as the March 25 election approaches. For the Reagan Administration, the Honduras-based forays have another advantage: they do not violate the self-imposed U.S. limit of 55 military advisers in El Salvador...
...work in 1982, the South Africa Solidarity Committee explicitly supported the armed liberation struggle of the ANC and PAC, which are recognized by the UN. So did 1500 students who signed a petition proclaiming that support and support for the bank loans ban, In contrast, Silvers talks about guerrilla warfare as "Face warfare" in the exact phrascology one would expect from an apartheid judge condemning a freedom-fighter to death...
...guerrilla leader is released
...that would lead to Namibian independence. Yet they have also speculated that South Africa might let Toivo out of prison as a means of causing a split in SWAPO leadership. If that is the case, the South African government could not have chosen a better time to weaken the guerrilla organization: negotiations for Namibia's independence could begin at any time...
...Machel, the decisive impetus toward accommodation was a growing fear that South Africa might unleash its vastly superior muscle against Mozambique. In the past year South Africa has conducted major military operations against guerrilla strongholds of the South West African People's Organization (SWAPO) in Angola and has staged periodic raids on A.N.C. bases in Mozambique. Despite its battlefield successes, however, South Africa has been growing weary of the regional struggle, which is expected to consume some 10% of this year's national budget and has brought a mounting toll of casualties...