Word: guerrillas
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...groups supporting venous causes planned their own events on different days. Spiritual groups organized a vigil on April 9 to call for debt forgiveness for the Third World. Unions held a rally outside Congress Wednesday. Smaller groups like Alabama Artisans for Social Justice, the Anti-Boredom Brigade and the Guerrilla Gardeners found their...
...United States, currently allied with Fujimori in his fight against Shining Path guerrilla warfare, passed a bipartisan resolution early last week that implored Fujimori to maintain the integrity of the electoral process and threatened to "modify its political and economic relations with Peru" should he fail to comply. A few days later, it was announced that Fujimori had fallen short of the required majority by about 20,000 votes...
...constitution allows only two presidential terms, but he found a loophole to permit himself a third, and his supporters in Congress dismissed the constitutional court judges who demurred. But despite the strong public support he won in the early '90s for reining in inflation and facing down two leftist guerrilla insurgencies, many voters have turned against Fujimori. "The economy is stagnating with some 60 percent underemployment in urban areas," says McGirk. "After Fujimori's 10 years in power, many people think he has run out of steam...
...killed 241 U.S. servicemen in 1983. Children of Hizballah martyrs make up a quarter of the 1,000 students there, who are drilled in daily English classes. Another symbol of the new Hizballah is its al-Manara (Lighthouse) TV, which broadcasts news, soap operas, kiddie programs and with-the-guerrillas footage of attacks on Israeli fortifications in southern Lebanon. The station--managed by close-shorn Islamic revolutionaries--recently climbed to No. 3 in overall viewership in Lebanon, a sign that the group is as intent on fighting a ratings war as it is on continuing a guerrilla...
...Hizballah's hard-won Lebanese supporters. What is not in doubt is that Hizballah's well-trained and well-equipped fighters will fight on, if told to do so. "When the Israelis leave, we will celebrate by thanking God for our victory," says Said Kassem, 32, a Hizballah guerrilla since he was 18, as he sits by a waterfall near the Iklim al Toufah battle zone. "Then we will wait for our leaders to tell us the next step...