He also said the Colombian military hoped to as much as double its contingent of 2,500 navy and army troops now fighting drug traffickers and their guerrilla allies along the country's rivers.

To their credit, leftist political leaders have returned to the electoral arena and now call for restraint, but their guerrilla allies are stepping up attacks on elected mayors.

Among the casualties was Josephine Anderson, sister of one of Quantrill's key guerrilla allies, "Bloody Bill" Anderson.

Some politicians of the left say this tactic of giving great latitude to the nonviolent opposition while being harsh with the Communists and their guerrilla allies is part of the Pinochet strategy for dividing the opposition.

Indeed, Mr. Guzman once dismissed Che Guevara, Fidel Castro's guerrilla ally, as a "chorus girl."

In 1884 Cáceres turned against his former guerrilla allies in order to defend the old order.

At the urging of Soumokil, Assiz's force overwhelmed the few local Republican troops and their guerrilla allies before seizing control of the city.

A Lebanese Muslim militia and its Palestinian guerrilla allies fought pitched battles today with Israeli-backed Christian forces in southern Lebanon.

Sinn Fein and the Protestant Ulster Democratic Party were both briefly suspended from the talks when it emerged that their guerrilla allies were involved in some of the killings.

For example, when operating with inexperienced guerrilla forces in Spain, the Royal Navy sometimes failed to achieve its objectives simply because of the lack of manpower that the Navy's guerrilla allies had promised to supply.