For the most part, the home guard had done a miserable job protecting the nominally pro-Confederate home front from Union-allied guerrillas.
IN Colombia, President Andrés Pastrana has abruptly abandoned a peace agreement after provocative rebel kidnappings and scattered attacks, and last week resumed war against leftist guerrillas allied with drug dealers.
Using the nom de guerre Rex Nhongo, Mujuru initially fought with the military wing of Joshua Nkomo's Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU); he then switched to the guerrillas allied with Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU).
But he has been rejected by Russia and disavowed by the United States in recent weeks because of reports that he has allied himself with guerrilla forces with ties to Islamic extremists.
In addition, the African National Congress allied itself with Palestinian guerrillas waging armed struggle against Israel.
Fighting between the guerrillas and allied Somali-Ethiopian troops killed at least 28 people over the weekend in the city.
Jospin's way Explosive politics Reprints Related items Terror in RussiaSep 16th 1999It is, of course, possible that he is lying, or that another allied group, perhaps Dagestani guerrillas, are involved.
As the big cartels disappeared, the business reverted to smaller and even more ruthless groups that managed to maintain production and distribution quite satisfactorily, especially as they were closely linked either to Colombia's Marxist FARC guerrillas or to the fascist anti-guerrilla paramilitary groups allied with the government and tacitly supported by the United States.
They allied with former soldiers and guerrillas who, with the economy cratered by a decade of fighting, couldn't find jobs and turned to street crime.
A1 Girding for Spring The Bush administration is concerned that the approach of warmer weather may signal a sharp rise in attacks on American and allied troops in Afghanistan by guerrillas thought to be regrouping in mountains along the Pakistan border.
The shootings on Dec. 12, 1948, at a settlement of plantation workers by the Batang Kali River, took place during the early days of the conflict known as the Malayan Emergency, when British and Commonwealth troops, along with their Malay allies, fought guerrillas from the Communist Party of Malaya.
