Word: guerrilla
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communist government of North Viet Nam is nervously looking toward the south. There, the Communist guerrillas are doing as well as ever, having extended their hold on the Mekong delta and the high plateau of South Viet Nam. But last week U.S.-supplied aircraft were dropping fiery chemicals to burn off jungle foliage from guerrilla hiding places along the Laos border. U.S. military advisers were training South Vietnamese battalions, and plans were under way to increase the South Viet Nam army from...
...S.A.O. last week finally located the secret barbouze headquarters. It was a modern villa called Bel Air, set among the olive and palm trees on the heights of Algiers. The head barbouze was identified as Colonel Jean Leroy, 50, a veteran paratroop officer and guerrilla leader who is half French, half Vietnamese. In Paris last fall, Leroy accepted a commission from De Gaulle's government to form a 100-man underground police force to fight the S.A.O. with its own terror tactics...
...Class. During World War II, Hoxha seized the leadership of a Communist guerrilla band and not only cleared Albania of Italian invaders but also eliminated rival guerrillas. He literally slit throats among his own followers-of the 14 members of the first Central Committee, Hoxha is the only survivor...
...Fatherland. Among the guerrilla-diarists was Captain Nguyen Dinh Kieu, who, with 60 Viet Cong guerrillas, slipped into South Viet Nam last July. "From this day," he wrote, "I am in the fatherland again." He was a fretful commander. After noting that he had punished two guerrillas for getting drunk, he worried that deserters or poor march discipline might alert South Viet Nam Rangers. Some of his men balked at bloodshed, and Kieu wrote pedantically: "This can be remedied only by intense political activity during rest periods...
...also filled his diary with admonitory phrases that echo the books on guerrilla fighting by Red China's Mao Tse-tung and North Viet Nam's able General Giap, conqueror of Dienbienphu: "Be extremely friendly with local comrades and very parsimonious with the food supply they give us . . . Respect the local population and never touch their property . . . Observe absolute secrecy and discipline . . . Only attack when victory is certain...