Word: guerrilla
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week, a taxpayer could see plenty of cause for his high tax bite-and maybe, more than usual, tended to connect the two. The headlines out of Cuba, Brazil and Argentina might make him wonder whether the Alliance for Progress was worth it-or more necessary than ever. Guerrilla warfare in South Viet Nam and an easing of crisis in Berlin were the kinds of ups and downs of Communist harassment he had learned to live with. The lull in Berlin could remind him that there would be no such breathing space without the tax-supported military strength...
Faced with a Communist guerrilla uprising in Malaya in 1948, the British prepared for a long piecemeal war. While infantry patrols harried the Reds in the impenetrable jungle, the British used a "carpet sweeper" technique on the jungle's edges: gathering up peasants from isolated huts and hamlets and concentrating them in walled "strategic" villages protected by troops and home guards...
...third-ranking Cuban Red after Party Boss Blas Roca and Strategist Carlos Rafael Rodríguez, Castro launched a violent attack. Escalante and other party men like him were working to undermine the revolution by setting up underground cells to seize control of all revolutionary institutions. Already the old guerrilla fighters were being shunted aside by party functionaries. "Did they think they won the revolution in a raffle?" cried Castro. The "boastfulness" of the old Communist militants and the belief that those who do not belong to them are not able to occupy important posts is an "absurd, negative, stupid...
...government. Like Diem, Madame Nhu is intolerant of criticism, last week lashed out at the "pseudo-liberalism" of those who questioned Diem's restrictive measures. She indirectly blamed the West for Communist gains in South Viet Nam, because the U.S. should have realized the pressing need for anti-guerrilla forces as far back as 1955, and scored some points when she deplored "the progress of neutralism in the world favored by the inability of Western democracy to protect all those that Communism covets...
...whom the U.S. decided to tie the survival of predominantly Buddhist South Vietnam. This in a region whose natives traditionally considered Northerners foreign and suspected Catholics of being pro-French. This also at a time when a majority of the population quite openly sympathized with the communist Viet Minh guerrillas who had been leaders of the Independence movement. It was absolutely necessary for Western strategy to create some kind of popular front to challenge the Communists at the general elections which the Geneva Treaty set for 1956 to unify the country. The general elections were never held because...