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...happens, only about 4% of Puerto Rico's voters in the 1972 elections seemed to want liberation. As it also happens, Albizu had waged a lifelong terrorist campaign. He instigated the 1950 assassination attempt against Harry Truman and in 1954, after four of his followers sprayed gunfire around the House of Representatives, wounding five Congressmen, hailed the triggermen for "sublime heroism...
...spoke, dressed and reacted differently than did their Palestinian cousins in the occupied territories. They encountered militant, anti-Israeli West Bankers, who denounced them for being more Israeli than Arab. At the same time, the Israeli Jew looked upon his Arab fellow citizen with increasing suspicion. When sabotage or terrorist incidents occurred, for instance, the Israeli Arab had to submit to humiliating searches by military police...
...usually Chinese-made AK-47 automatic rifles) and given basic training by Chinese instructors. Mozambique veterans of the decade-long guerrilla war against Portugal show them how to plant mines, lay ambushes, surround and storm farmhouses. Some 1,000 cadres have slipped back across the border to carry out terrorist raids within Rhodesia...
...practical purposes, are concentration camps, with high chain-link fences, huge floodlights and constant armed patrols. Residents are searched on entering and leaving; violators of the dusk-to-dawn curfew risk being shot on sight. The Smith government says the camps are to protect the tribes from terrorist intimidation. But many of the inhabitants are considered security risks and the camps are intended to prevent them from feeding and aiding the guerrillas. Meanwhile, the tribespeople complain, their farms have been left to ruin and their cattle...
...terrorist incursions for twelve years now, and these haven't worried us," says Ian Smith. "In the past, when they came by the hundreds, they were killed by the hundreds. If in the future they come by the thousands, they will be killed by the thousands." Despairs a Rhodesian lawyer who opposes Smith's leadership: "All we can do is plead with Smith for some sense from the sidelines. He is both stubborn and blind to reality, but it seems we're stuck with...