Word: guerrilla
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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 North Arabia...
Lawrence of Arabia. A handsome newcomer named Peter O'Toole is the star of this great big beautiful $10 million spectacle-produced by Sam Spiegel and directed by David Lean-that describes the amazing adventures of the guerrilla genius of World War I, but the customers will find themselves more fascinated by the infinite billowing sea of golden sand that covers Arabia Deserta...
...course not. Missile diplomacy is as complicated as a chess match. We have a choice of many kinds of war, including accidental war, war by escalation, preventive and pre-emptive war, counter-insurgency, guerrilla war, police actions, invasions, limited wars, conventional, nuclear limited, nuclear-preferred... Some wars are out of style, like Holy wars and splendid little wars. Others we don't recognize, such as wars of national liberation. And some we call fiascos or abortive attempts...
Perhaps too high. For Goodwin wanted to go farther, faster. He undercut his boss, Assistant Secretary Robert Woodward, an amiable career official, mainly by deft use of telephone calls to the White House. But he soon found that other New Frontiersmen had studied their guerrilla manuals. Woodward's successor, Edwin Martin, demanded and got a clear line of authority from the White House and Secretary of State Dean Rusk. With that, Martin began bypassing Goodwin on key decisions...
...secrecy made a news item from Red China all the more interesting last week. Radio Peking trumpeted an announcement that Communist security forces had "wiped out" 172 commandos who had secretly landed in coastal Kwangtung province last fall. The Communists claimed that the interlopers planned to set up a "guerrilla corridor" in Kwangtung "to open the way for a subsequent military adventure of invading the mainland." To back up the story, Communist newspapers splashed front-page pictures of the captured agents and their stockpiles of U.S. rifles, grenades, and plastic demolition equipment...