Word: guerrillas
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...situation suggests that the better part of valor is deception. The journalist lowers a microphone from the bureau's balcony to record the racket of civil war, and dubs in a scripted battle scene that includes the voice of a Palestinian guerrilla, played by the Lebanese office manager. The effect is similar to a realistic novel whose ironic task is to trick readers into believing they are getting things as they...
These meetings are the source of misunderstanding, according to Pauker, Analysts assume Aquino used his asylum as a springboard for dissident activity, he said. For example, after Aquino predicted in a New York speech that the threat of guerrilla violence was severe, bombing by rebels soon broke out in Manila, and U.S. officials apparently assumed that he was connected with the incident. Pauker denies this, citing the commitment to nonviolence Aquino acquired in prison and during his years...
...hour siege, the rebels began to withdraw as dawn approached. The significance of the attack was that in other areas of the country, U.S. military advisers are encouraging the use of Viet Nam-era pacification tactics to thwart the Salvadoran insurgency; the San Miguel assault was the first major guerrilla response to the U.S. strategy. It was also the first time that the rebels have taken the army head-on and held the upper hand for quite so long. In addition, the guerrillas demonstrated more firepower and better coordination than at any other time in the country's four...
...contrast, the downing of two civilian Air Rhodesia planes by rebel troops during the guerrilla war that brought black rule to Zimbabwe was nothing but coldblooded. In 1978, foot soldiers of Joshua Nkomo's Patriotic Front Army fired Soviet SA-7 missiles at a Viscount airliner as it flew from Salisbury to Kariba, 175 miles to the northwest. Of the 56 aboard, 38 died in the crash. Then, after injured passengers crawled from the wreckage, the guerrillas arrived and again opened fire, killing ten of the survivors...
...onetime guerrilla surprised many critics by managing his new position with competence and cool. He met four African leaders in the hope of regaining their diplomatic recognition of Israel, and made four trips to Western Europe to argue against the European Community's 1980 Venice Declaration, which recognized the Palestine Liberation Organization and called for a Palestinian state. He also struck up what one aide calls an "instant chemistry" with U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz. Shamir's only major blemish appeared last February when the Kahan commission of inquiry reprimanded him severely for having failed to verify...