Word: guerrilla
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communists and a gaggle of the discontented have done their best to topple his government. In the economic fallout that came after the corrupt dictatorship's fall, there were many grievances to exploit; Communist-fired mobs roamed the capital; Communist gunmen murdered policemen, started backland guerrilla uprisings, even infiltrated the armed forces, touching off two bloody marine corps uprisings last year. If the Reds themselves were not strong enough to overthrow Betancourt, they hoped to make Venezuela's old-line military officers nervous enough about Betancourt's inability to keep order to do the job for them...
...McNamara has built up the U.S. capability to fight nonnuclear war. The Army now has 16 combat divisions instead of eleven, the Air Force has 21 tactical wings instead of 16, Marine Corps has been increased by 15,000 men to a force of, 190,000. To fight guerrilla actions, the Army's Special Forces has been tripled to 5,600 men. The Air Force's F-105 fighter-bomber, previously valued for its nuclear firepower, is being modified to carry conventional weapons as well...
Lawrence of Arabia. Produced by Sam Spiegel and directed by David Lean, this $10 million superspectacle stars a glamorous newcomer named Peter O'Toole as the guerrilla genius of World War I; but the big attraction of the picture is the glittering golden desert of northern Arabia...
...Rewriting History." Bobby Kennedy's oversimplified statement of the case stirred up strong reactions. In a TV interview, Dwight Eisenhower shrugged off any blame for the fiasco, said that his Administration had contemplated no more than support for a "guerrilla type of action" in the Cuban mountains. (At least two plans had been talked up in the Eisenhower days-a guerrilla type of action, and a direct invasion with U.S. air and logistics support. The final decision fell to Kennedy...
Unaccustomed to that sort of guerrilla warfare, the British retreated in some order. They still keep their position in Zeckendorf Property Corp., an affiliate that they insisted be spun off from Webb & Knapp in 1961, where they are joint partners with Webb & Knapp with 47.5% each (the remaining sliver belongs to Alcoa). Zeckendorf Property has under way 13 promising urban development projects, including Manhattan's Lincoln Towers, and Zeckendorf plans to continue linking up with partners to build mw development projects-but to keep ouTsiders out of Webb & Knapp. He hopes that assiduous real estate trading can keep...