Word: guerrilla
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...success, further publication was hastily suspended. Reason: Jarman-in-a-beard was a dead ringer for Fidel Castro, the tenacious rebel who burrowed into eastern Cuba's Sierra Maestra mountains eleven months ago and has since then been plaguing Cuban Strongman Fulgencio Batista with guerrilla warfare...
...side of the story at first hand, Kearns and Cameraman Yousef Masraff entered Algeria through the nationalist supply line from Tunisia, hiked for 22 days and nights 175 miles into the mountains with a rebel unit that slipped through the French forces, shared the hazards and discomforts of guerrilla warfare-and the risk that the French, who recognize no war, would recognize no war correspondents...
...week in New Delhi, surrounded by a tight little circle of moonfaced Nagas in pressed Western trousers and clean white shirts, the Pandit announced to newsmen what amounted to at least a partial victory for the Nagas. The announcement granted amnesty to all Nagas for past (but not future) guerrilla activities, promised an end to the military practice of "regrouping" Naga villagers into what amounted to concentration camps, and heralded the formation of a single, self-governing "autonomy within the Indian nation" out of the two largest Naga areas. This new "state" will unite some 250,000 Nagas now living...
Being Practical. Notably absent from the peace conference was Guerrilla Chief Phizo, whose ill-clad, ill-fed, weary and malaria-ridden troops were reported reduced to a mere 1,000. The agreement with Nehru had been reached without their consent by tribal chieftains who were fed up with the war. and convinced that Phizo's headhunters are pretty poor rifle shots anyway. Many of the chiefs had also come to realize that Nehru would never grant complete independence to a frontier people so close to Red-occupied Tibet. For the sake of expedience and compromise, Phizo was momentarily swept...
...make the point of its independence, the new government quoted from congratulatory messages from all over the world, including North Viet Nam's Communist Boss Ho Chi Minh and Red China's Mao. But Communist Chieftain Chin Peng, who runs the guerrilla operation from the jungles of neighboring Thailand, was not likely to be deceived by such diplomatic niceties. Radio Peking made the Communist position all too clear: "The Malayan people's struggle against imperialism has not ended...