Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Major General Aharon Yariv, 51, who retired as director of military intelligence last year to become Golda Meir's "special adviser on security affairs." Yariv's operatives are probably members of Mossad ("the Institution"), Israel's equivalent of the CIA. Mossad appears to have infiltrated the guerrilla movement. In recent months at least three Arab travelers have been arrested at European airports by local police, who had been tipped off that passengers were carrying arms and explosives in their luggage. In separate incidents, Austrian and Italian police stopped young Arabs traveling on stolen or forged Israeli passports...
...Nicosia's Olympic Hotel and climbed into bed. An explosion suddenly wrecked the room and killed Bashir. Although he traveled on a Syrian passport and headed a company called Palmyra Enterprises, Bashir is believed to have been the representative to Cyprus of Al Fatah, the principal Palestinian guerrilla organization. A bomb, apparently one that could be detonated electronically from a distance, had been concealed under Bashir's bed. An unidentified assassin had watched for the light to go out in the room and then pressed a detonator, setting off the bomb...
Since President Ferdinand Marcos imposed martial law last September, the Philippine armed forces have used their new powers in a struggle to suppress two guerrilla rebellions at opposite ends of the country. One has been organized by the Maoist New People's Army, with perhaps 1,500 combat cadres, operating In Isabela province on Luzon Island in the far north of the country. The other is a resistance movement among Moslems in the southern island of Mindanao and on the jewel-like tropical islands of the Sulu Archipelago. While the Maoists have been thrown on the defensive, martial...
...forced resettlement. Within just one week of the proclamation, 53,000 peasants were simply ordered down from the Sierra Madre into the lowlands. An officer explained how the move had been accomplished. "Evacuation started immediately after martial law. We gave them a warning; just lighting a cigarette for a guerrilla is a crime. They are either for us or against us. Actually, they did not want to get caught in the crossfire." One could not help wondering what story might be told by villagers who had been ordered out of their homes by the armed forces without notice...
...people, or about 14% of South Viet Nam's total population of 17,500,000; in reality the number is probably closer to 500,000. Some intelligence officials believe that Hanoi and the Viet Cong will shift immediately after the cease-fire to widespread but small-scale guerrilla tactics. More likely the Communists will keep guerrilla activity to a minimum until the U.S. withdrawal is completed...