A few men wearing some item of khaki suggested a discreet guerrilla presence.

Even the P.L.O.'s Sunni Moslem allies in Sidon oppose the guerrilla presence outside the shantytowns.

The Sunnis have little military power except in Sidon, the port south of Beirut that also has a resurgent Palestinian guerrilla presence.

The Congress agreed not to activate or expand its small guerrilla presence, and the Government consented to let the rebel movement substitute organized protest as a political weapon.

Mr. Shakir was on his way home when he was abducted in Latifiya, a town with a heavy guerrilla presence.

They seemed intended to upstage Mr. Zedillo's speech and give an impression of a widespread guerrilla presence in Mexico.

In that region, the Shiite movement is trying to prevent a revival of the Palestinian guerrilla presence that Israel suppressed with its 1982 invasion.

"It's the privatization of the Colombian Army," said Eduardo Gamarra, a political science professor at Florida International University who has studied the guerrilla presence in Colombia.

And one of those agencies, he said, could now be involved in supporting the large guerrilla presence in the remote mountains.

Usually in Japanese-occupied areas, the IJA only controlled the cities and railroad routes, with most of them countryside either left alone or with active guerrilla presence.