Word: militia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Moreover, his Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin has been able to claim that the Lebanese border was safer than it had been for years. With the support of only a few hundred Israeli soldiers, the Israeli-backed, predominantly Christian South Lebanon Army militia has been notably effective in preventing Palestinian-inspired attacks across the Israeli frontier. At the same time, the mainstream Shi'ite Amal militia in southern Lebanon has not opposed Israeli efforts to keep down the level of P.L.O. activity, but it cannot afford to risk a confrontation with Hizballah, which has a considerable following among...
...each R like every other R. It is not an art form, God knows, in Toad script, not Japanese calligraphy. Printed (typed) words march in uniform, standardized, cloned shapes done by assembly line. But now, thought Toad, as I write this down in pencil, the words look like ragtag militia, irregulars shambling across the page, out of step, slovenly but distinctive...
Duvalier's departure sparked riots and revenge killing against the Tonton Macoutes, the Duvalier dynasty's dreaded private militia...
Western observers assumed that the explosion was linked to an ongoing struggle between Lebanon's rival Christian factions. Less than a week earlier, 350 died when troops loyal to President Amin Gemayel defeated a militia force headed by Elias Hobeika, who fled to Paris and then to Damascus. The fight stems from Gemayel's rejection of a Syrian-brokered agreement that was supposed to have brought an end to Lebanon's eleven-year-long civil war. The accord was signed by leaders of Lebanon's Druze and Shi'ite Muslim militias and even by Hobeika, but was turned down...
...militia succeeded the Tonton Macoute, the notorious personal army created by Jean-Claude's father, Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier, from whom he inherited the presidency-for-life...