Word: guerrilla
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another Angola. These days, arson seems Portugal's main answer to colonial troubles. In the vast African possession of Angola, the Portuguese army ruthlessly burns down native villages in retaliation for the burning of Portuguese plantations by guerrilla bands. With the rains due this month, the army desperately seeks a military decision but can rarely come to grips with the elusive rebels. Farther north, below the bulge of Africa, lies a 2,800-sq.-mi. sliver of Portuguese territory called Cabinda. Here the authorities recently tried to snuff out revolt by arresting all the local chiefs and every Cabindese...
...acutely aware, the current guerrilla war might get worse before it gets better. Unlike Berlin, where the crisis so far has been only words, South Viet Nam is the arena of East-West confrontation where men are dying in large numbers. The struggle is savage. Just since January the dead on both sides total 2,500?roughly triple the total casualties of all eleven months of fighting in Laos...
Vietnamese troops are also getting lessons in psychology: do not kill farmers' pigs or rape their daughters; military misconduct has been one of the biggest peasant complaints against the government. To make their point, the instructors unabashedly quote Mao Tse-tung himself on guerrilla tactics: "You are fish in the water, and the water is the people." To knit the villages together, give them some sense of contact with Saigon; villagers will be equipped with radio transmitters to permit fast report to headquarters when guerrillas attack. Diem's growing Youth Corps is being trained to run the transmitters...
...Sterling J. Cottrell, 47, a career State Department officer who is a "hardline" man on Southeast Asia, wanted the U.S. to take tougher action in Laos. Cottrell is willing to use rough, unorthodox methods to stop the Communists, works closely with Brigadier General Edward Lansdale, the Pentagon's guerrilla warfare expert who helped Magsaysay crush the Huks in the Philippines and advised Ngo Dinh Diem in his battle against the Binh Xuyen gang...
Already U.S. military advisers in Viet Nam have trained 6,500 native troops in the new, mobile Ranger tactics designed to out-guerrilla the guerrillas. At Nhatrang eight new Ranger companies are learning the tricks: scaling cliffs, making wild leaps on cable pulleys, walking noiselessly in jungle undergrowth, learning how to kill swiftly. It is no secret that the Ho Chi Minh Trail is now a two-way street, for the South Vietnamese now use it to travel north, and Ranger patrols are probing into North Viet Nam to give Ho a taste of his own medicine...