Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...turning over power to the new regime. The first step would be for Somoza to resign and leave the country. The National Assembly would then elect an interim President, who would in turn step aside for the incoming provisional government. Finally, the Sandinista's 5,000-man guerrilla army and remnants of the national guard would be melded into a new armed force...
...year, the U.S. appealed for an end to arms shipments to both sides in the conflict. It remained to be seen whether that call for calm would be honored. Somoza's battered air force was reinforced by several T-28s, which can handle low-level bombing missions against guerrilla forces. U.S. officials in Managua were investigating reports that the planes had been illegally imported from America...
Nowhere are those sensitivities more acute at present than in Israel. Once again, the "special relationship" between Washington and Jerusalem is in some trouble. The U.S. has strongly deplored Israeli air and artillery attacks against Palestinian guerrilla positions in Lebanon, not only because of the loss of civilian ives, but also for fear that the raids could ead to war with Syria. Last week an Israeli army force crossed into Lebanon for the first time since May, killing two guerrillas. The U.S. regards Jewish settlements in the occupied territories of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank as illegal...
...nations, particularly the five so-called frontline states (Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia). The frontline Presidents told Lord Harlech that they will withhold support for Muzorewa until they are assured that the proposed reforms will be acceptable to the Patriotic Front. Chances of such acceptance are slim, since Guerrilla Leaders Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo are totally opposed to any negotiated settlement with the bishop's regime...
Another condition for African support, Harlech informed Thatcher, was that Muzorewa must prove himself an independent black leader, not a mere puppet of the white establishment. His chances of doing so were drastically diminished by the June 26 raids on guerrilla bases near the Zambian capital of Lusaka, in which 20 people were killed by helicopter-borne Rhodesian commandos. Approved by Muzorewa, the raids have been widely interpreted by black African leaders as a sign that the bishop was tilting away from them and toward the white power bloc in southern Africa. Under the circumstances, there is a chance that...