Word: guerrilla
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...West Point, commanded U.S. troops in postwar Berlin and during the Korean war. In 1959, he quit as Army Chief of Staff because President Eisenhower's defense advisers, sold on the massive-retaliation theory, ignored his demands for a "flexible defense" capable of handling everything down to limited guerrilla actions. President Kennedy called him back to duty in 1961, made him his personal military adviser, then chairman of the Joint Chiefs. Last summer Lyndon Johnson persuaded him to give up that job and go to Saigon as ambassador. "He could have stayed on another two years as Chairman...
...Stanleyville intervention was, it did have the unfortunate effect of coalescing Arab and African radical support behind the rebellion. With the northern and eastern borders of the Congo wide open to infiltration, Tshombe, or any other non-Lumumbist leader who might follow him, faces a long, drawn-out guerrilla...
Under one name or another, Greek rightists and leftists have long fought each other. But in 1942 two mutually suspicious Greek guerrilla detachments-one made up of E.D.E.S. nationalists and the other of E.L.A.S. Communists-joined forces long enough to give protective cover to a British demolition team that blew up a railway bridge at Gorgopotamos, 130 miles from Athens, thus halting supplies intended for transshipment to Rommel's Afrika Korps in Libya. In reprisal, 14 Greek hostages were executed by the Italian occupation forces. Ever since, Communists and rightists have argued about whose guerrillas deserved the greater glory...
...week busses and trains brought 10,000 leftists to the site to commemorate the 22nd anniversary of the explosion. Also on hand was a rightist delegation from E.D.E.S., as well as government officials and army officers. After a Te Deum Mass, much of the crowd began to sing Communist guerrilla songs and shout Communist slogans. Suddenly there was a violent explosion near the bridge. Screaming "Fascists!" and "Killers!" the crowd scattered, leaving behind 13 dead and 51 wounded...
...paras sustained only seven casualties in rescuing the hostages. Four hours after their arrival, the Congolese 5th Mechanized Brigade rolled into Stan, spearheaded by the tough white fighters of Major Mike Hoare, 44, a starchy South African who served behind Japanese lines in Burma under Britain's mystical guerrilla warfare expert, Orde Wingate. No mystic himself, Hoare insisted that his 300 men stay neatly shaved, refrain from drinking beer before battle, but cared not a whit what they did otherwise. Mostly South Africans and Rhodesians, they gave no quarter to any black resembling a rebel...