Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...agreed to permit independent elections and withdraw its 40,000 troops. That was to be done in coordination with the phased departure of 50,000 Cuban troops backing the Marxist regime in Angola, which gives sanctuary to the militant exiles of the South West African People's Organization, whose guerrilla army has been battling Pretoria's rule since 1966. The U.S.-brokered agreement was signed last December under the auspices of the U.N., which took on responsibility for policing Namibia's transition with an international peacekeeping force (UNTAG...
...strike office, headquartered in the offices of sympathetic faculty in Emerson Hall, was the nerve center of the operation--guerrilla theater, thousands of leaflets, nightly meetings, "political brigades" all emanated from the crowded rooms in Emerson...
...behind by polling an outright majority, 54% of the estimated 1 million ballots cast. Cristiani's victory, however, was muted by a voter turnout of only about 50%. The high rate of abstentions translated in part to support for the boycotting Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.), the Marxist guerrilla force that has battled for power for the past nine years...
...Salvador's election, while fairer than some previous exercises, was nonetheless seriously flawed. Election-related violence took the lives of at least 30 civilians, including three journalists, two of them killed by army troops. Guerrilla forces effectively paralyzed public transportation and staged several attacks in outlying towns. The vote was thus held down not only by sympathy with the F.M.L.N. but also by fear...
...troops are mired in the unending civil war in Lebanon, where 13 Western hostages are being held. Against his wishes, p.l.o. Chairman Yasser Arafat has recognized Israel's right to exist. The U.S. and Britain chastise him for harboring a Palestinian guerrilla group, some of whose members are leading suspects in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. Yet Syria's wily President Hafez Assad appeared unruffled and even jovial last week, as he maneuvered through the region's perilous political landscape for three hours in a rare interview with TIME Assistant Managing Editors Karsten Prager and John F. Stacks...