Word: counter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...technique of being a soldier in Vietnam, one of the movies that's probably the neatest is the one on counter-insurgency. I saw it three times, twice, in basic and once in medic. This Communist dude with his little flying cap, he's the Communist guerrilla and he's in the jungle with his executive officer who looks an awful lot like Fidel Castro. They have this salute where they close their fist and shoot out their arm. It reminds you a little of Nazi Germany, just enough so you know the tie-in is there...
...fight your battles" and one of his assistants always sneaks behind a little peasant back in the crowd and forces him to raise his hand so they can take his son away. In the end everyone is killed, the Americans win, and they tell you how the Americans have counter-insurgency schools in all the military units. In the Marine Corps they have a sniper school. Oh yes, the scar-faced leader escapes like a coward and then they finish by telling you: "Counter-insurgency will pop up again somewhere until all insurgency has been wiped out to the last...
...secrecy necessary in most such operations? At the time they started, it certainly was-largely because of the very real, all-too-easily dismissed threat from Communist subversion or front organizations, which had to be countered with the free world's own fronts. At the same time, it was also necessary to counter American naivete. The State Department, for example, was working to set up an international labor federation including Communists (who eventually took it over), while the CIA was battling undercover for anti-Communist unions. Liberal opinion denounced cold war measures as hysterical, while conservative opinion denounced...
...Coup & Counter-Coup Sir: Your cover story on Greece and its besieged King [April 28] was excellent-objective in treating the King and the decent men who decided to save their country from Communism. The free world will be happier if fewer Castros take over; the Papandreous are worse than Fidel...
...repressive tenor of the regime ran counter to the wishes of King Constantine, in whose name the officers had seized power (see box). After initially opposing the coup, the King decided to cooperate in an effort to steer the regime toward parliamentary rule, but his hopes hardly seemed justified. Brigadier General Stylianos Pattakos, 54, the new Interior Minister and a member of the triumvirate that really rules the country, mused to foreign newsmen that in the new Greece there would be a strong executive branch and perhaps no need for a Parliament at all. "We believe Parliament will...