Word: guerrilla
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some $250 million in U.S. economic and military aid had too heady an effect on the Laotian government, which was soon reeling with corruption. Promised reforms never materialized, and practically no funds reached the peasants and forest tribes. The Communist Pathet Lao guerrilla bands began raiding in the north. Red Prince Souphanouvong not only walked out of jail, but took most of his prison guards with him. In August 1960, an obscure paratroop captain named Kong Le staged a military coup in Vientiane and returned Souvanna Phouma to power as Premier. General Phoumi Nosavan, with his CIA advisers, retreated...
...time bicycle racing is no sport for the squeamish. Perilous and punishing, it promises lung-searing fatigue, bone-smashing crashes, and the kind of nasty guerrilla warfare among competitors better employed in the jungle. Racers have been known to ram each other off mountain curves, to strew tacks in the road behind them, to urinate into the wind so that it blows back in the eyes of their opponents. So taxing is the sport that few champions enjoy a long reign...
TIME's otherwise brilliant article on General Paul Harkins and the Viet Nam war [May 11] overlooks a serious failing in our guerrilla warfare efforts-language. A U.S. Ranger in full combat gear seems far less like an intruder in a remote village if he can speak Vietnamese with its inhabitants. Yet even Special Forces troops in Viet Nam rarely receive more than a four-week cram course in local language and culture before beginning their assignments...
...Korean linguist for the Air Force, I have seen the use of language produce amazing results in winning the friendship and approval of local populaces-:hence their support. This support is the crucial factor in guerrilla warfare...
...Greek Example. This is the kind of war the U.S. faces in South Viet Nam. How can it be won? The Communists have made a mystique of guerrilla war by winning a dozen brilliant campaigns from Yugoslavia to the mainland of China. But the Communists have lost. too. especially in Greece, Malaya and the Philippines. Says one Washington official: "In Greece 15 years ago, the existing government was reactionary and a lot of people screamed that we could not win with it. But we did. and the political situation took care of itself." Says Averell Harriman. the key Washington official...