Word: guerillas
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...Senator delighted his audience for more than an hour with his assigned topic: a vigorous denunciation of the Radcial Right. He charged right-wing extremists with "a general debasement of political dialogue on every level" and said they posed a real threat through "personal intimidations, ruined reputations, and telephone guerilla campaigns...
...American retreat--another step toward eventual Communist victory. And with their new freedom of movement and undisputed control of almost the whole country, would become more intransigent than even. And, as the French experience showed, there is no such thing as a secure enclave in a guerilla...
...deLattre Line was an attempt to secure an area the French held in the Indo-Chinese War. It failed. When the French were kicked out of Vietnam in 1954, they were pursuing the very enclave policy now being urged on the Americans. As long as a guerilla force has complete freedom of movement, it can mass its forces and choose its battles so that it surprises even an "enclave" with superior numbers. The "search and destroy" tactic is not an alternative to "securing territory which is already held," as the editorial states. It is a necessary corollary...
...what the Asians and Africans had thus far failed to do and define neutralism "as a faith and a way of life." In the meantime, the United States should renounce nuclear weapons (by stages), close down most overseas military bases and rest national safety on "a territorial-militia or guerilla-resistance type of defense...
...Goldin '64-4, "our strategy was straight from Mao--to win the hearts of the people." One of the hardest "hard core irresponsibles," as the leaders of the North Harvard Neighborhood Association proudly and defiantly label themselves, Goldin describes the whole three-year battle as "a classic study in guerilla warfare...