Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...even explicitly called for a holy war to recapture Jerusalem, probably one of the most asinine, irresponsible things he has ever said or done. These statements only serve to enhance Arafat's macho, third-world guerrilla persona. Such immature posturing has no place in the peace process...
...down" their arms and accept the return of Aristide to power -- sentiments greeted by an unbelieving crowd with shouts of "Liar! Killer! Rapist!" He left, protected from a howling, spitting crowd by U.S. military police. Which seems strange, since in early summer he had threatened to organize a guerrilla war to kill any foreign troops that dared to land in Haiti...
Power engenders fear. The Representative from Cobb County is more than a legislative bomb thrower. In the past 16 years, his guerrilla techniques have toppled one House Speaker -- Jim Wright of Texas -- and prompted the resignation of a senior Democrat -- Tony Coelho, now a part-time adviser to the Clinton White House. This year Gingrich ambushed the crime bill and forced an embarrassed Clinton Administration into overdrive to save it. Says Mickey Edwards, a former eight-term Oklahoma Republican and now a full-time lecturer at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government: "He's made the Democratic leadership deal with...
...soldiers were already shedding their uniforms and melting into the civilian populace. But that could have been in preparation to fight rather than to give up; some Haitian Americans insisted that if it came to war, Cedras and others would hide in the mountains to conduct a guerrilla campaign against U.S. troops, concentrating sniper fire on white soldiers. Some Haitians even maintained that the voodoo gods were on their side: they had sent Frank Corder's plane to crash into the White House lawn last Monday as a warning, and followed up by telling Clinton he must try to work...
...wrong in Somalia. When the last U.S. official and his 59 Marine bodyguards leave Mogadishu this week, the U.S. will be abandoning a failed investment of $1.3 billion and 44 American lives. Two still secret postmortems spell out how the humane mission to feed starving Somalis degenerated into a guerrilla war that has left the country little better off than it was before the U.S. intervened...