Word: insurrectionism
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The "final offensive" began early last week in working-class districts of San Salvador, the capital. As guerrilla bands in the city staged hit-and-run attacks on police and military targets, they issued, over a captured classical music radio station, a tape-recorded appeal for a general strike and...
Geographic isolation, in part, helped protect both these mavericks from the Kremlin's wrath. Other rebellious East bloc nations were less fortunate. In 1953 the Soviet army moved into East Germany to crush a widening worker-led insurrection in support of political freedom and economic improvements. Three years later...
In some ways, merger could be useful to both countries. As usual, Syria is having trouble with neighboring Iraq, and could use some of Libya's oil riches for its ailing economy and for modernizing its Soviet-equipped army. Libya is at loggerheads with Egypt and Morocco and is...
The possibility of a coup from the more moderate Peronists, with whom the military has been shuffling the nation's control since 1943, seems slim. Although the majority of urban workers and professionals are Peronists, many interviewed are afraid of participating in a violent insurrection.
A surge of women, often with family members' disapproval, forsook their dish towels for grenades. By 1978, 40 per cent of FSLN comandantes were women, and by spring 1979, four of the seven military chiefs of staff were female. Several battles, including the final insurrection in Leon, were led by...