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...sustaining the controversy and heightening the tension, Sovern has protracted a drama which draws intense press coverage. The media remains fascinated by the judicial battle, a contest pitting rebel students against the "Establishment" and prominent First Amendment attorneys against each other. Sovern should have foreseen the possibility of television news anchors leading their broadcasts with "Day 18 of the Columbia Hostage Crisis" if he crossed swords with the protesters on the judicial battlefield...
...increasing numbers of pitched battles with the army, they now appear to have reverted to more classic guerrilla methods. When faced with superior firepower, they retreat; when the army moves on, they regroup in their old haunts. Last week, however, the army claimed a major victory over the elusive rebels. A military spokesman contended that one of the country's most important guerrilla commanders, Joachin Villalobos, of the group known as the People's Revolutionary Army, had been shot and perhaps killed in eastern El Salvador. Rebel spokesmen issued denials...
...decade later, the U.S. has gone a long way toward turning the tables on Moscow. In many civil wars today, it is Soviet-backed regimes that face insurgencies. Frequently the U.S. provides some degree of support to the rebel forces...
Guerrilla. Rebel. Insurgent...
...corpses of six foreign tourists, including two Americans, who had disappeared in the region in July 1982. Mugabe said that the band of 22 dissidents allegedly responsible for the murders was identified as having connections with Nkomo's party. According to the government's announcement, the leader of the rebel group had already been tried and sentenced to death for the killings of two white farmers in Matabeleland...