Word: guerrillas
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...person, Amos Oz will tell you that he has no ambitions to be a "political guerrilla." He has always operated on the margins, keeping the government on its toes. "I couldn't think of myself as a politician sitting at endless sessions," Oz says in his soft-spoken manner. As a self-proclaimed idealist, he has rarely if ever had to face the realities of political responsibility...
Internally, as the airport ceremony for the wounded demonstrated, Castro is appealing to patriotic fervor rather than revolutionary enthusiasm to maintain his hold on the populace. There is, in fact, little of the old guerrilla spirit left in Cuba: like Castro, the revolution has gone middle-aged and gray. Visitors to Havana are struck by the similarity to most Communist countries: a rigid bureaucracy, a once lively press that is now dismissed even by sympathetic leftists as boring, buildings that are shabbily maintained...
There was little danger of that. When the swarm finally landed in Grenada's capital of St. George's, the cadres of Cuban guerrilla fighters, rumored to be in the hills, were nowhere to be found. Grenadians, who cheerfully underwent interview after interview, all seemed to think the invasion had been a splendid show, or that liberation from Marxist rule was a good thing. Each of the networks had a dozen or more staffers on the scene, and more than 150 news organizations had at least one, but there were no scoops to be had. Even if there...
Arguing that their best defense was a strong economy, Costa Ricans lobbied for a $3 billion, ten-year U.S. aid program for their country. The most controversial encounter of the day, however, was unscheduled. After announcing that he would not meet with "people engaged in guerrilla warfare," Kissinger and two other commission members held a talk with Alfonso Robelo, a leader of the U.S.-supported rebels battling to overthrow Nicaragua's Sandinista regime. Kissinger later said that his meeting with Robelo would be the tour's last with rebels of any stripe...
...killings, and the brazen release of the videotape, were the most dramatic evidence yet of a grisly new public relations campaign being staged by El Salvador's infamous "death squads." The right-wing terrorist groups have plagued the country since the beginning of El Salvador's guerrilla war in 1979. The recent attacks, how ever, have been aimed at influential targets, such as student leaders, professors and labor officials who are considered sympathetic to the left...