Word: guerrillas
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...saviors were a brave company of men from the 6th Ranger Battalion. With the help of Filipino guerrilla bands, the Rangers slipped into the Japanese-held jungle and threaded their way around Japanese encampments to the prison, shot their way through the gates and, after a bloody firefight, hustled all the prisoners onto waiting buffalo carts for the journey back to safety...
DIED. ALBERTO KORDA, 72, photographer whose image of Ernesto "Che" Guevara immortalized him as a worldwide symbol of revolution; in Paris. Korda's picture The Heroic Guerrilla graced countless T shirts and posters after Guevara's death in 1967. The photographer accepted use of his picture as a protest icon but fought commercial reproductions he felt "dishonored" his subject. DIED. WHITMAN MAYO, 70, actor best known for playing the character Grady in the U.S. TV series Sanford and Son; in Atlanta. He worked in the entertainment industry for more than 30 years, starring in TV's Different Strokes...
...Dejan Anastasijevic: They're back on the offensive, but it's hard to tell how effective they're going to be, or even how serious the level of fighting is right now. The Macedonian security forces are not well trained or equipped for this sort of anti-guerrilla operation in the mountains, and there is always a great danger that if they inflict civilian casualties in the Albanian villages where the rebels are hiding, the fragile unity government that involves the main ethnic-Albanian parties could collapse, which could seal the fate of multiethnic Macedonia...
...after the pilot refused to respond to attempts by Israeli aircraft to communicate with him is hardly surprising, given that the date is the first anniversary of Israel's withdrawal from southern Lebanon and that its forces were on high alert against the possibility of attacks by the Hizballah guerrilla army that has continued to attack Israeli positions in the Shebaa Farms area of the border...
...headlines, for Israelis the anniversary has been an opportunity to reflect on their government's decision to unilaterally end its 18-year occupation of southern Lebanon - a decision forced on Israel by the relentless stream of casualties inflicted on its forces by Hizballah's low-intensity guerrilla campaign. When then-Prime Minister Ehud Barak gave the order to withdraw, in line with a campaign promise to pull out within a year of his election, he was expressing the will of some 70 percent of Israeli voters, who could no longer see any valid purpose in sending their sons and daughters...