Word: militiamen
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...sweltering summer afternoon, 200 people are gathered around a delivery van parked on a dusty side street in downtown Bucharest. The vehicle's doors swing open, and all 200 seem to surge forward at once. As six blue-uniformed militiamen armed with automatic weapons struggle to hold back the crowd, a salesclerk begins parceling out portions of a coveted commodity: frozen 1-lb. chunks of chicken gizzards, heads and feet. In minutes the meager supply is exhausted, and fistfights erupt among disappointed customers. Moments later the van drives off, and the throng disperses...
...activists. "Nearly the whole country is on strike," a musician in Yerevan told TIME Moscow Correspondent Ann Blackman. "Most plants are shut, including one that supplies rubber for much of the country. Movie theaters and concert halls are closed. We're in a state of mourning." He reported that militiamen accompany bus drivers in case local citizens set up blockades and that doctors and telephone operators stop work for one minute each hour to demonstrate their sympathy...
...become commonplace, the brawls between this faction and that stopped making headline news long ago. But last week's clashes between the pro-Iranian Hizballah and its more moderate Shi'ite rival, the pro-Syrian Amal, were horrific even by Lebanese standards. In six days of warfare, Hizballah militiamen drove Amal fighters out of large portions of Beirut's southern suburbs. Using tanks, mortars, rockets and artillery, the combatants blasted buildings to rubble and sent civilians scurrying for refuge carrying their belongings on their backs. Snipers fired at anything that moved, including ambulances. At some hospitals, fighters forced doctors...
Nicaraguan officials said guerrillas killed Linder and two Sandinista militiamen Tuesday at La Camaleona, a village about 20 miles away in Jinotega province. The U.S.-financed rebels have been increasingly active recently in Jinotega...
...other Lebanon developments, six people were reported killed in a new outburst of fighting between Shiite Moslem militiamen and Palestinian guerrillas yesterday around a Beirut refugee camp...