Word: guerrilla
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Saigon-they inflicted 403 casualties on government forces while suffering 266 themselves. The Communists captured 205 weapons, 24 radio transmitters, four field telephones and a typewriter. The government captured only 63 guns, largely because the Viet Cong have taken to tying string to their weapons. Thus, when a guerrilla in an exposed position is shot, his buddies hiding near by can save at least the gun by pulling it into the bush...
There is no group in Latin America quite like Venezuela's Castroite Armed Forces of National Liberation (F.A.L.N.). It enjoys virtually no popular support, has had only limited success at guerrilla warfare in the hills, failed miserably in a much touted plan to disrupt last year's elections. Yet it is unparalleled in nasty little headline-grabbing stunts. Besides random killings and small acts of sabotage, F.A.L.N. terrorists have stolen five Louvre Museum masterpieces, hijacked one freighter on the high seas, kidnaped one visiting Spanish soccer star, and kidnaped one U.S. colonel. Last week they made...
...first guerrilla war of modern times was neither Lawrence's campaigns in Arabia nor the Boer War-two of the usual candidates-but the century-long struggle of the Irish for independence from Britain. The Irish experience, in its factionalism and atrocious savagery, was just like the more recent guerrilla wars, but it is set off from the others by its sense of Irish gaiety in the midst of bloodletting, of poetry rising from its bitterness. Thus the most rousing songs of the best Irish tenors celebrate some irregular victory or bravely borne defeat. And it is just this...
Tribal State. In an ambitious attempt to win over the montagnards, U.S. military advisers in 1962 started a program to train and arm them so that they could defend their villages from guerrilla attack. More than 9,000 were schooled by U.S. Special Forces instructors, who found them to be fierce, loyal fighters, extremely useful in cutting Communist Viet Cong supply lines in jungle-covered mountains; most came from the relatively civilized Rhade (pronounced Rah-day) tribe. However, when the hated lowlanders from the Vietnamese government gradually took over the program, racial tension mounted in the training camps, and montagnards...
...French soldiers who opposed him during Algeria's war of independence, Colonel Mohammed Chaabani was "the seigneur of the sands." A tough, canny guerrilla leader, he dominated a sere swatch of the Sahara and the rugged Aurès Mountains of northeastern Algeria. After independence, Chaabani joined Premier Ahmed ben Bella's Politburo and the army's general staff, but quickly grew restive under Ben Bella's heavy-handed Marxist dictatorship. Last June that uneasiness boiled over into open rebellion, and Chaabani took to the hills with a hard core of his veteran troops...