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...policemen and setting off bombs, celebrated May Day by posting snipers on roofs of the city's housing projects to fire into the streets. In the countryside, bands of Red guerrillas, trained and indoctrinated in Fidel Castro's Cuba, have been roaming the jungle hills, trying to enlist the peasants and skirmishing with Betancourt's pursuing National Guard...
Once the majority of people in a village have been won, the Viet Minh use social pressures or terrorist sanction to enlist the support of the rest. By carefully choosing their targets of assassination, the Viet Cong guerillas combine political and military maneuvers. (If the 1500 killed a month by guerillas, a good many are unpopular local officials...
...copy of Caesar's Gallic Wars tucked into his duffel bag. The son of a wholesale grocery salesman, Chesty Puller-he always walked with his chest up and out, like a pouter pigeon on parade-spent only a year at Virginia Military Institute before quitting in 1918 to enlist in the Marines, only to be thwarted when World War I ended before he could kill any Germans. But Puller was soon blooded while fighting bandits in Haiti and Nicaragua, where he was known as El Tigre and won the first of his five Navy Crosses...
Citing chapter and verse, Schwarz reviews the history of Communist efforts to subvert American society and institutions, to capture the mind of U.S. students ("That is always the first step"), to seize control of labor unions, to set up front groups to enlist the unwary to their causes. Such efforts, in fact, achieved their greatest successes in the 19305 and in the years during and immediately following World War II. But Schwarz, by slurring over dates and by drawing present-tense conclusions from past-tense examples, gives them dramatic currency, leaving the impression that the threat of internal subversion...
Palm Beach was a working vacation for the President; all week dignitaries dropped in like sun-seeking tourists. Argentina's President Arturo Frondizi, completing a 32-day tour of Canada and the Far East, came for a 90-minute conference on Cuba. Kennedy had hoped to enlist Frondizi's support of sanctions against Fidel Castro, but from a nation that has been notably easygoing against Fidel, he could get no more than agreement on a wrist-slapping resolution (see THE HEMISPHERE). Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon and Budget Director David Bell brought along the fiscal 1963 budget. Kennedy approved...