Word: guerilla
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...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...
...outbreak of World War II, Davidson joined the Canadian Army, eventually becoming commander of Camp T. F. Lawrence, a guerilla warfare unit. After the war he helped rebuild a Dutch town which had been destroyed in battle, led a troop of soldiers to England where they did land work on a British farm, and finally returned to Cambridge and Harvard Law School. A member of Phi Beta Kappa. Davidson has since been engaged in an international law practice and is, at the same time, President of Technical Studies, Inc., which owns twenty-five per cent of the international channel tunnel...