Word: malaya
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...guerrillas and, if possible, rescue their terrified victims. The senior service in the war against terrorism is Britain's 900-man Special Air Service Regiment. Founded in Libya in 1942 to penetrate the lines of Rommel's Afrika Korps, the S. A.S. has battled Communist guerrillas in Malaya, Mau Mau insurgents in Kenya, and I.R.A. gunmen in South Armagh. Probably the most seasoned commando force is Israel's General Intelligence and Reconnaissance Unit 269; its accomplishments include the 1972 rescue, at Lod Airport in Tel Aviv, of 90 hostages aboard a Sabena jet that had been hijacked...
...supreme commander of Ian Smith's tough but makeshift security force is Rhodesian-born, Sandhurst-trained Peter Walls, 51, a dour disciplinarian but popular with his troops. Walls' baptism of fire took place after World War II in Malaya, where he learned counterinsurgency techniques. Walls has publicly stated that there can be no military victory over the guerrillas without a political settlement that provides the country's blacks with tangible economic gains. He has also declared that he and his army are ready to "serve under any Rhodesian government"-presumably including one headed by blacks. Meanwhile, though...
...alias Commander Dante, a veteran guerrilla who rose from a peasant background to become commander in chief of the N.P.A. He had been arrested only the week before-with humiliating ease -while asleep at his family's rural home. Buscayno was visiting his two-week-old daughter (named Malaya, "free") and his wife Mila, who had been released from detention in June and apparently served as an unwitting lure. Army soldiers closed in at 3 a.m. and Buscayno surrendered without a fight. He walked out to be photographed with smiling army officers and even Marcos himself, who arrived...
...prime example of a pacific people, Alland cites the Semai of Malaya. A band of 12,000 farmers, the Semai adopt and name animals, talk to and caress them as if they were children, and even suckle them. Youngsters are never physically punished; they rarely see any form of violence, and so have no model of aggressive behavior to imitate. One result is that murder is unknown among the Semai. When angry, they generally confine themselves to voicing insults and spreading malicious rumors. True, they sometimes throw their own belongings around, but they are careful not to hurt anyone. Even...
...guerrilla organizations, the Irish Republican Army. Best estimates are that the army in Northern Ireland numbers no more than 200 hard-core gunmen, and deaths and arrests have decimated its cadre of trained leaders. But the I.R.A. clearly has no shortage of potential recruits, and the recent history of Malaya, Cuba and Cyprus provides ample evidence that small guerrilla groups can survive for years against much larger military forces...