Word: guerrilla
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Booby Traps & Bridges. It is an ugly, elusive war, fought with all the clever stunts in the guerrilla's handbook, not all of them deadly. Gangs disguised as official mosquito-spray teams walk into villages to confiscate farm equipment in the name of the government; sometimes they tear up peasants' identity cards to disrupt local administration; the Communists even managed to sabotage the national census by substituting falsified lists in some areas. The Viet Cong, which is what the Communist Vietnamese are called, are everywhere: tossing grenades into isolated villages in the rice fields in the south, sowing unrest among...
Basically, the Administration's attitude is: "Go slow-and watch out for the unexpected." For the President well understands that the Communist challenge is worldwide, and that crisis is not limited to Berlin. South Viet Nam is threatened by a new Communist guerrilla buildup in bordering Laos. There is potential trouble ahead at the U.N., where the question of Red China's entrance is sure to be raised at the General Assembly this fall. For years the issue has been kept from resolution by an annual vote in favor of a moratorium on discussion of whether the mainland...
South Viet Nam's Red terrorists generally concentrate their murderous raids on village chiefs, Vietnamese troops and police patrols, usually steering clear of the hundreds of Americans in the country who advise and equip the government's army. But last week, emboldened by recent guerrilla successes, they dared to attack the U.S. ambassador himself right in the capital of Saigon. Only nine weeks at his new post, Ambassador Frederick E. Nolting Jr. was riding to his official residence for lunch when two men hurled a homemade hand grenade onto the roof of his car, fled on a motorcycle...
...long the moonlight is glinting off Peck's jaw as he leads a crew of ruffians up an unclimbable rock face in a pelting rain. Suddenly he slips. In best White Tower tradition, the man who grabs Peck's wrist is his blood enemy, a dour Cretan guerrilla (Anthony Quinn) who has sworn to kill him when the war is over. Quinn's eyes flash. Will he let Peck fall? Not, the viewer may be sure, while there are still old war movies left to anthologize...
...F.L.N.'s chief negotiator, stocky ex-Guerrilla Belkacem Krim, was clearly taken aback. "We do not agree at all. Not at all. This is a unilateral move," he spluttered. Krim proposed that "working sessions" continue the following day. But De Gaulle was adamant; he plainly wanted to let the Algerians stew for awhile. Perhaps, suggested Joxe, everyone might get together again in ten to 15 days, but the tone of his farewell words as he flew off to Paris was clear enough: don't call us, we'll call...