Word: hit-and-run
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Responsibility for the bombings was claimed in London by the newly reorganized military wing of the African National Congress (A.N.C.), a radical nationalist group that was banned in 1960. After years of sporadic hit-and-run attacks, A.N.C. guerrillas have stepped up their activity in recent months. Last week's strike demonstrated a new level of proficiency in their determined struggle to free the country's 20 million blacks from the domination of 4 million whites...
Rebel bands continued to mount raids against the Soviets' lines of communication. One ambush in the northern Salang Pass, for example, successfully blocked a Soviet convoy of more than 200 vehicles at a 7,000-ft. altitude for almost 24 hours. Yet for all their hit-and-run bravado, it was clear that the rebels were on the defensive, and sooner or later the Soviets would have the insurgency under control. "A besieged government on the verge of collapse has been saved," an Asian military attache grudgingly allowed. "Shoring up a doomed regime obviously was the Soviets' first...
...shortage of equipment and a cutback in supplies, while the Pasdaran had a seemingly limitless budget. Army leaders did not hide their satisfaction when the Pasdaran, basically an urban force, fared badly in mountain warfare against the Kurds. The army, by contrast, refused to be drawn into hit-and-run encounters with the insurgents...
...whites. On several occasions white police harassed marchers at newly legal Patriotic Front rallies and, in one case, fired tear gas on a crowd carrying flowers to the airport welcome. More ominously and mysteriously, two nephews of Patriotic Front Co-Leader Robert Mugabe were wounded in a hit-and-run shooting attack against his sister's house in Salisbury. From Mozambique, Mugabe reacted with deadpan menace: "Such assailants must remember that whatever they do, we can do better...
...black nationalist rebels of Zimbabwe Rhodesia have come a long way to a ceasefire. In the early days of the war, when they crossed the Zambezi River in dugout canoes carrying rusting shotguns and hunting rifles to make hit-and-run attacks on isolated farms, a white Rhodesian officer dismissed them as "a bunch of bloody garden boys." Such sarcastic putdowns no longer apply. The Soviet-and Chinese-trained "freedom fighters " of the Patriotic Front have been forged into an efficient guerrilla force. Despite their edge in air power, some of Zimbabwe Rhodesia's white-led array units have...