Word: guerrilla
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...while, South Viet Nam's Seventh Division-which smashed two Red guerrilla battalions on the Plain of the Reeds five weeks ago-was laying a trap for another showdown. U.S.-trained Colonel Huynh Van Cao traveled around Kien Tuong province telling villagers exactly where and when he intended to attack the Communists, showily deploying his men to back up his threats. Predictably, the cautious Viet Cong melted deep into their Plain of the Reeds stronghold, exactly where Colonel Cao wanted them. Suddenly shifting his troops, he deployed four infantry battalions on the Viet Cong's south flank. Three...
With the broad outline, the delegates found little to bicker about. The loudest bickering came from Cuba's scraggle-bearded economic czar. Che Guevara. Che, author of one of the basic Communist treatises on guerrilla warfare, proved himself a troublesome parliamentary guerrilla. He began by objecting to "almost all the affirmations'' made in the opening round of speeches, once stormed in a blind rage out of the conference hall-and into the ladies' rest room. (Said a Guatemalan delegate: "If there were not a halo of blood surrounding this flabby Cantinflas. he would actually be amusing...
Portuguese Guinea, which lies on the African bulge, has managed to fight off three invasion attempts by guerrilla bands. Lisbon accused Portuguese Guinea's neighbor, Senegal, of helping the rebels; Senegal retaliated by promptly breaking off diplomatic relations with Lisbon. Even the large and prosperous East African colony of Mozambique, which has so far been quiet, is stirring with nationalist fervor. Mozambique rebels in nearby Tanganyika, given asylum by Prime Minister Julius Nyerere, boast that they will soon turn the colony into "another Angola...
...South Viet Nam army was feeling exhilarated about its victory three weeks ago over a big Viet Cong guerrilla force on the Plain of the Reeds. The Communist Viet Congs obviously could not leave it at that. They handed out leaflets cockily warning that trouble would come at any moment in President Ngo Dinh Diem's capital stronghold of Saigon. That same night, trouble came. As a truck loaded with troops pulled out of an army camp scarcely two miles from Diem's palace, a terrorist lobbed a grenade from the shadows. Two soldiers were killed, three more...
Hercules Replaced. The third story. The Exile, follows the plot outline of the original. Philoctetes, while discarding the names and reshaping the characters and the symbols-a guerrilla war substitutes for the Trojan War. the secret papers of a dead chief replace the bow of Hercules. The central conflict is played out by a young guerrilla fighter who is sent to a distant island to try to persuade an exiled leader to escape and return to the wars...