Word: guevaras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...slowly shaping up the M.P.L.A. army of 35,000 men, instilling a much-needed dose of discipline. Angolan soldiers complain that the men from Havana work them too hard and sometimes steal their women. But relations are good at officer level, and many M.P.L.A. soldiers now wear Che Guevara-style beards and berets...
...hours later an anonymous spokesman telephoned a French news agency to claim the assassination for a group calling itself the Che Guevara International Brigade. The killing, he said, had been timed to approximate the anniversary of the May 8, 1945 surrender of Hitler's forces in Europe because Zenteno had supported Bolivia's refusal to extradite Klaus Barbie, the former Gestapo chief of Lyon, on France's request. Furthermore, the caller added, the dapper ambassador was marked for death because in 1967, as a Bolivian colonel, he had supervised the CIA-trained forces that tracked down...
Little Fear. French police had never heard of the Guevara Brigade before, but then they have not been very diligent in keeping track of such things. Until recently, operatives belonging to all manner of terrorist groups had wandered through Paris with little fear of trouble from les flics; the French government had been trying to maintain friendly relations with all Arab countries and their many, often violent, political factions and had hoped Paris would become a kind of fire-free zone that would be spared the terrorism troubling other European cities...
...Weather Underground, and Joanne Chesimard, a highly visible member of the Black Liberation Army. Their martyrs include Diana Oughton, who accidentally blew herself up while making bombs for the Weather Underground, and Tamara Bunke, known as "Tania," the Argentine-born revolutionary who was killed while fighting with Che Guevara in Bolivia and from whom Patty Hearst took her own revolutionary name. Wrote Dohrn in Prairie Fire, the Weather Underground's heavily illustrated manifesto: "Women fighters are frightening apparitions to the enemy and an example...
...them are hardly more than a dozen or two people with a catchy name and a talent for publicity. Their methods are crude. They are the sort of people that Karl Marx would have contemptuously dismissed as senseless anarchists. Many California radicals follow the teachings of Mao, Che Guevara, French Revolutionary Regis Debray and Carlos Marighella, the Brazilian terrorist tactician. Marighella advocates violence as a way to encourage government authorities to overreact. He theorizes that a government will inevitably impose harshly repressive measures that will "radicalize" nonviolent citizens and thus bring on the revolution...