Word: guerrilla
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recognized by the Communists as Premier, and 2,000 good troops commanded by Captain Kong Le support him. Both Kong Le and Souvanna insist that they do not want a Communist Laos. But Souphanouvong, a Mephistophelean-looking fellow in his sideburns and trim mustache, is a hardened Communist guerrilla. His sneaker-shod troops total 12,000 and are veterans of jungle fighting. It is obviously the winning team-and getting stronger every...
...Pernambuco, Brazil, where Castro agents are taking advantage of frightful poverty and hunger and an angry and miserable peasantry (two ranches and two big sugar plantations invaded in recent weeks, riots in the city of Recife), the situation was approaching open guerrilla action. President Jânio Quadros, long a let's-leave-Castro-alone man, had to fly in an infantry battalion from Rio to help local army units keep order. When troops raided a Peasant League headquarters in the neighboring state of Paraiba, they found 100 rifles, reportedly exported from Cuba, thousands of Portuguese translations of textbooks...
...shaven, nervous, speaking in halting French, Belkacem Krim was clearly a better guerrilla leader than a diplomat; he understood little of the give and take of negotiation. Yet last week Krim was winning good marks for his leadership of the F.L.N. delegation at the French lakeside resort of Evian-les-Bains. France's Algerian Affairs Minister Louis Joxe was impressed by Krim's obvious sincerity, his single-mindedness, and the studied moderation of his language. "He and his kind were hunted like wolves for years on end," said one French delegate. "It would be futile to expect...
What worries Krim and the F.L.N. is that guerrilla forces traditionally disintegrate unless they are under constant military pressure. Should fighting cease, the rugged F.L.N. bands will be tempted to lay down their arms and abandon their mountain hideouts, thus leaving the F.L.N. without a military force in being. To meet the threat of peace, the rebels last week redoubled their efforts in Algeria with a rash of isolated assassinations and bomb throwings. At Miliana, 90 miles from Algiers, rebels ambushed a convoy, killing eleven gendarmes. At Sidi Aich, in rugged Kabylia, 14 Moslem soldiers in the French army deserted...
...Negotiators. The French delegation is headed by Algerian Affairs Minister Louis Joxe, 59; the F.L.N. by small, tough Belkacem Krim, 38. A former French army corporal, Krim rose from guerrilla fighter in his native Kabylia to become field commander of the entire rebel army. Krim, five times sentenced to death in absentia by French military courts, is the only one of the nine "historical leaders" who began the insurrection in 1954 still at large (four were killed; four are French prisoners...