Word: resistance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sense, Carter is gambling that Hassan is too beleaguered militarily and politically to resist a settlement of the dispute. Since last summer, the Polisario attacks have grown from small local skirmishes to pitched battles involving thousands of guerrillas. In an attack last month, the Moroccans were forced to abandon a key defense post at Mahbes, about 35 miles inside the Moroccan border. At the same time, Hassan's economy has been hobbled by 25% inflation, skyrocketing fuel bills and bad harvests. He is not particularly popular among his countrymen, but so far they have supported him on at least...
...give/ How to love, how to live." The lovesick Laura (Blanche Baker) turns sightseeing into a grim obsession by setting out to visit every listing in the Michelin Guide. Of course these students, like so many before them, are not so adept at going native that they can successfully resist an occasional Big Mac attack...
...Cambodian government refused over the weekend to accept American aid in any form, calling it a "maneuver by the imperialists and international reactionaries" to assist the forces of Pol Pot, which continue to resist the Vietnamese. Cambodia said it was receiving all the help it needs from Vietnam, the Soviet Union, and other Communist nations...
Demonstrators will not forcibly resist arrest, although many plan to "go limp" making it harder for city police to remove them...
Cuba does not attempt to intervene in countries where only large infusions of aid could produce perceptible change, or relatively well-off countries where local governments are strong enough to resist Communist incursions. Haiti, with a per capita income of only $230 a year, is an example of the former. Explains an exiled opposition leader: "Who would want to inherit Haiti's problems?" Castro's ambitions have also been frustrated on Dominica, where Hurricane David blew away not only thousands of homes, but the odds-on chance that Leftist David Rosie Douglas would unseat Prime Minister Oliver Seraphin...