Word: guerilla
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...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...
...though he if often accused of them. Fidel Castro is not a Communist; he has accepted a few communist ideas, and has fallen for parts of the local communist line, but by no stretch of the definition is he a Communist. Fidel Castro is not merely an incompetent guerilla leader; though his executive abilities are questionable he works harder than almost any other chief of state in the world. Fidel Castro is not a god; Cuba's popular magazine, Bohemia, printed a sketch of him, brows furrowed, eyes cast upward, with a light halo about his curly locks...
...Four pilots, 2 demolition experts, 2 radiomen, 2 medics, 3 arms experts or suppliers, a dozen marines, 1 Hungarian Freedom Fighter, 3 Cuban (Castro) rebels, 1 Yugoslav guerilla, 4 Chinese, 1 Costa Rican, 2 Negroes, numerous Korean veterans...
...minor characters each preserve the rugged uniqueness of the mountain people: Pablo, the guerilla leader, animal-like and cowardly, dulled with wine and inactivity; Pilar, his woman, who assumes command when he no longer cares; Anselmo, the old Pacifist, who is forced to kill to support the Republic...