Bloggers can be activists through their writing, teachers can be activists by encouraging students to challenge their beliefs, artists can leave guerrilla activist art around town, computer-savvy folks can arrange an e-zine, etc.
The fighting left 25 guerrillas, one soldier and one civilian dead and an unknown number of others wounded, including 19 civilians, said Brig.
"Being in the mountains does not prepare you for this new life," said Alberto Cuéllar, 44, who left the guerrillas in 1991 and whose first business failed.
But that did not mean the instant recreation of civil society: the far left, sometimes guerrillas, on one side, and the forces of repression on the other still had to be reintegrated into it.
From that day until Sept. 15, the day the Israeli Army invaded West Beirut, Defense Minister Sharon and other senior Israeli officials repeatedly asserted that the P.L.O. had left 2,000 guerrillas behind.
The very next day after the army unit left, eight guerrillas of Colombia's largest rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, came by the house and took away his 20-year-old son, Neilson Jose.
During her last visit to the house, in December 1995, she was also under escort by the police, who were investigating an 11-hour siege of the hide-out that had left three guerrillas and one policeman dead two weeks earlier.
After the end of the war in June, he left the guerrilla group, which later in the year signed an agreement to disband, and joined the local administration in Prizren as an environment and safety officer.
The military recovered the soldiers after a gunbattle near the town of Bongabong on Mindoro island that left one guerrilla from the New People's Army dead, military spokesmen here said.
A group of local officials in Maguindanao Province, including relatives of the governor, Esmael Mangudadatu, were inspecting a road project near Lake Buluan on Sunday when the rebels opened fire, inciting a gunfight that also left one guerrilla dead, said Mr. Mangudadatu and a military spokesman.
The State Department is currently fretting that the Palestine Authority might collapse, taking Yasser Arafat's declining authority with it, and leaving Hamas guerrillas in control.
