Word: guerrillas
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...Horizon: Two U.S.-trained Colombian battalions are scheduled to launch a major offensive into guerrilla-held territory in January. The U.S. is due to release further installments of its aid package shortly before Clinton leaves office, for which the President will probably once again waive the usual requirement that Colombia show progress on human rights issues. Negotiations between the government and the rebels are going nowhere, and there's a growing sentiment in Colombian politics to stop negotiations and seek a return of the one-third of the country they've handed over to the guerillas in earlier deals. That...
...Bush Challenge: During the campaign President-elect Bush spoke in favor of Clinton's policy, and one of his key advisers gave notice that a Bush administration would be happy to escalate U.S. support for a military effort to end guerrilla control over those territories ceded by Andres Pastrana's government. But expanding U.S. involvement there may run counter to the stay-at-home instincts of the Pentagon. Expect an increasing number of articles containing the words Colombia and Vietnam...
DASCHLE Behind closed doors, the Democrats are divided between liberal hard-liners, who want guerrilla war, and moderates, who fear that such a war would destroy them as well as Bush. In the 50-50 Senate, the decision about which way to go will be made by Tom Daschle, the mild-mannered, tough-minded Democratic leader. While bitter power-sharing negotiations continue between Daschle and majority leader Trent Lott, revenge fantasies focus on Cheney, the tie-breaking Republican vote. The Vice President-elect now has two offices on Capitol Hill, the traditional one on the Senate side and a cubbyhole...
...years, Carlos Castano and his paramilitary death squads have sown terror among civilians in rural areas of Colombia [WORLD, Nov. 27]. Castano's United Self-Defense Forces, the self-appointed exterminators of leftist rebels, label civilians as guerrilla sympathizers and thus make them "legitimate" targets of brutal attacks. Your article's semiheroic depiction of Castano failed to mention that he is responsible for the murder of dozens of peasants, indigenous leaders, union workers, academics, journalists and human-rights activists. JAUME VIDAL CASANOVAS ANA MARIA GOMEZ LOPEZ Washington...
Hizballah used tow missiles against Israel last February. Ironically perhaps, Hizballah may have got the missiles indirectly from the Israelis. The Lebanese guerrilla army gets most of its weaponry from Iran. The most plausible explanation for its tow missiles--strenuously denied by Iran--is that these are some of the 2,008 units of the antitank weapon sold to Tehran by the U.S. in 1986 in exchange for the release of American hostages held in Lebanon--the root of the Iran-contra scandal that dogged the Reagan Administration. The actual delivery of those missiles to Iran was, of course, carried...