Word: guerilla
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While the Pleiku attack was certainly a test of our determination, it was no more so than the hundreds of similar raids executed by the Viet Cong in the past several years. Saturday's raiders employed traditional guerilla tactics and, as has become usual, mounted their short, lethal offensive with stolen or captured American arms. In no way did the incident resemble last summer's Tonkin affair, where American bombing answered clearly defined aggression by the North Vietnamese government...
...months for a scholarship, either to the U.S., to another African country, or to a nation of the Communist bloc, especially China, Czechoslovakia, or the Soviet Usion. A number of the refugees become "freedom fighters" and go off for military training, usually to Algeria or to one of several guerilla training camps located in remote parts of Tanganyika...
Apparently Stetler, no longer the fair-haired youth of his high school days, has impugned the judgment of the Philadelphia School Board by supporting the South Vietnamese guerilla rebels. He and several friends (including a Westinghouse scholarship winner who placed second in the national contest) have organized what they call the Student Committee to Send Medical Aid to the Front of the Naional Liberation of South Vietnam...
...guerilla version of the war in Vietnam was presented in a film shown by the Cambridge ADA to a crowd of nearly two hundred in the Faculty Club last night. It was the first public showing in the United States of a film made by the South Vietnamese Liberation Front, the national political organization of the guerillas...
...people of Vietnam are not satisfied with the rule of Diem and therefore they do not resist the guerilla tactics of the Vietcong. Soliven warned that "You can pour money into South East Asia but if the people are not in favor of the government, money will be of no use in resisting the communists." The United States has been content to send billions of dollars to Vietnam, without gaining the loyalty of the people, he claimed...