Word: guerrilla
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...body was the grisliest evidence yet that the guerrilla war in Haiti's backlands is not going well for Duvalier. According to reports filtering out of Haiti, three separate bands of rebels are fighting in southern and western Haiti-two groups, with about 80 men, calling themselves the "Haitian Revolutionary Armed Forces" and another independent band of 100. Since the first skirmishes eight weeks ago, the rebels have killed at least 80 Duvalier militiamen, have shot one of Duvalier's three AT6 patrol planes out of the sky, and have blown up roads, bridges and trucks. One night...
Senatorial Outcry. Whatever their purpose, the paratroopers and helicopters were hardly the first U.S. involvement in the Congo war. Since last month, some 70 American officers and men have been working closely with the Congolese army on guerrilla warfare and paratroop techniques. In addition, the U.S. has given Tshombe's army about ten C-47 transport planes, ten helicopters, 70 Jeeps, 250 trucks, and seven of the ubiquitous little T-28 trainers that have proved so useful on strafing and bombing missions against Communist guerrillas in Southeast Asia. Washington was even thoughtful enough to provide the pilots-and sensitive...
...Kokkina in violation of a firm promise not to attack without Greek knowledge and consent. When the Greek army officer commanding Makarios' National Guard resigned for the same reason. Makarios simply appointed in his place General George Grivas, the tough old resistance fighter who led the four-year guerrilla war against the British...
...Hong Kong, meanwhile, Bureau Chief Frank McCulloch organized our coverage in Southeast Asia. Correspondent Eric Pace stuck close to South Vietnamese Premier Nguyen Khanh, while other aspects of the situation were watched by James Wilde, just back with fresh impressions and a high fever from the guerrilla-infested jungle, and John Shaw, who left his wife and newborn son in Hong Kong to lend a hand in Saigon. From the Los Angeles bureau, Keith Johnson flew to Honolulu for interviews with Admiral Sharp. Reports Johnson: "Covering part of a war from Hawaii is an odd experience. The languid beauty...
...duty in Tonkin seemed as ho-hum and hum drum as duty on any of a hundred other routine tin-can patrols. In this case, the mission of the Maddox was mainly to show the U.S. flag and keep a casual lookout for Communist gun runners or seaborne Red guerrilla cadres. Occasionally the Maddox would slip up to within 13 miles of the Communist mainland, set her radar to sniffing the coast. But the real challenge to her sailors was to stay awake on lonely watches. Few of them even thought about combat; most, in fact, were still in grade...