Word: guerilla
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...National Liberation Front was able to crystallize together with the Northern activist elements only in 1959 as U.S. aid to Diem made "peaceful coexistence" look untenable to Northern leadership. Guerilla warfare intensified until 1965, when Hanoi escalated--probably not fully appreciating U.S. willingness to pulverize North Vietnam mercilessly as in the carpet-bombing raids last December...
...emphasize systemic change. Last spring, Saravelas gave the go-ahead to four staff members who were preparing original programs designed to meet that need: silk-screening, legal, and newsletter projects, as well as long-range plans for a bail fund project, a medical program, a youth union, and a guerilla theater group...
...same war college on August 1, 1972, Thieu stated that the "right" solution to the war lies in "the destruction of the economic, military and political potential of the northern aggressors... Otherwise the Communists would revert to guerilla war and that could go on for years and years." Whether the revolutionary forces can achieve their objective to bring about a "statement" in the war, will depend on the way the incumbent (U.S.) President deals with the problem...
...Europe, U.S. military men, experienced from military action in Vietnam, train Portuguese soldiers in guerilla tactics to use against the African freedom fighters. Last year American "advisers" were clandestinely flown into Mozambique. Shortly thereafter, MPLA reports, the Portuguese abruptly switched their military tactics to a distinctly American style. In the United Nations, the United States has continually either voted with South Africa and Portugal or abstained on matters concerning Southern Africa...
...American is primarily involved in flying supplies to the CIA's guerilla army, the Clandestine Army of Meo tribesmen led by General Vang Pao. Recently, due to expanded CIA operations, Continental Air Services, a division of Continental Airways, has also been flying supplies...