Word: guerilla
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...border, and his second at Muong Sing, 20 mi. to the northwest. He handled as many as 100 outpatients a day, wrote two more books (The Edge of Tomorrow, The Night They Burned the Mountain), and recklessly shrugged off the possibility of ambush as he pushed his Jeep through guerilla-infested jungle on daily house calls. A grateful Laotian government awarded Dooley its highest decoration: the Order of a Million Elephants. When critics argued Dooley was a "hit-and-run" doctor, he obligingly admitted to the charge. When they complained about his arrogance, Irish Catholic Dooley replied: "I know...
...course these countries must have well-trained, well-equipped armies large enough to take care of, say, guerilla forces like the Pathet Lao or to repel invaders from North Vietnam. That is where "defense support" assistance--which provides capital and soldier-trainers rather than heavy weapons--can be most useful for local defense, and the Pentagon could well sacrifice some of the military aid budget...
Born. To Raul Castro, 28, sideburned brother of Cuba's Dictator Fidel and boss of Cuba's armed forces, and Vilma Espin de Castro, 29, a guerilla fighter in Santiago during the civil war: their first child; in Havana. Name: Deborah (the nom de guerre of Vilma). Weight...