Word: guerrilla
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...measure of Khrushchev's failure came in World War II when millions of Ukrainians went over to the Germans without a fight. Stupidly rejecting this free offering, the Nazis launched a mass slaughter which so aroused the survivors as to provide the Red army with a vast guerrilla underground that slashed at the Wehrmacht's rear. Khrushchev, a lieutenant general, commanded a Ukrainian guerrilla army, and won a medal for the defense of Stalingrad. Political commissar for all Russian armies on the southern front, he ruthlessly purged collaborators in city after city recaptured from the Germans...
...enemy in Dienbienphu had been threatening the isolated French base at Laichau, a hedgehog supplied by air, which the French have been using to build up anti-Communist guerrilla forces among the friendly Thai tribesmen. Dienbienphu was also important to the enemy supply, especially for rice raids...
...border states now constitutes a military threat to India's hard-won freedom. The border states will not let Indian troops come in to guard their passes, and neither their own forces nor the mountains can keep the infiltrators away. Furthermore, the terrain is perfectly suited for guerrilla warfare, with deep-cut gorges and forests to hide the guerrillas, and hillside villages which can serve as listening posts, strongpoints, and arms depots...
From the Soviet zone of Germany last week came stories of guerrilla bands attacking Vopos (People's Police) and even Red army units. East Berlin's Communist Neues Deutschland ran pictures of four Vopos recently killed near Cottbus. and rewards of 1,000 marks each were posted for three Czech refugees who. presumably, had done the killing. In special maneuvers, some 25,000 Vopos took to the field with full packs, sending scouting parties across the countryside, posting guards on the highways and digging foxholes. The East German Interior Ministry announced it had uncovered and smashed a number...
...motorcade, escorted by 100 Indonesian cops and guarded all along its route by scores of Tommy-gunners, swerved to a halt in the guerrilla-infested jungle of central Java when a sedan bearing Vice President Richard Nixon blew a tire. A trifle shaken, Nixon hurriedly joined his wife Patricia in another car, was soon on his way again...