Word: guerrilla
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Will to Fight. The two countries present vastly different problems. In South Viet Nam, a pro-Communist Laos will mean an increasing flow of guerrillas and supplies transiting Laos over the old Ho Chi Minh trail from Communist North Viet Nam. Secretary of State Dean Rusk warned in a press conference last week that the guerrilla force in South Viet Nam has grown in seven years from 3,000 to 12,000 men, even as a North Vietnamese spokesman proclaimed that "the people's revolutionary struggle [in the South] has entered a new stage...
...Also Guerrillas. Still convinced that it is vital for the U.S. to step up its rate of growth, Kennedy task forces are at work on a new report that is expected to call for a more aggressive Government spending program. This is in addition to proposed increased spending on space exploration and guerrilla warfare forces-programs which, though urged as defense rather than economic measures, would obviously have impact on the economy. But when it comes to programs whose only declared purpose is to spur the economy, Congress and a tax-conscious public are apt to balk, convinced-no matter...
...response" if the Russians failed to halt their aggression-by-proxy in Laos. Declared he: "No one should doubt our resolution." But Nikita Khrushchev obviously did. He stalled off Kennedy's proposed cease-fire for five weeks, stepped un the Communist Pathet Lao's guerrilla offensive. By the time Khrushchev finally agreed to a cease-fire last week, the Communist troops controlled about half of Laos. Even after the British-Russian announcement of a cease-fire agreement, the rebels stayed on the offensive. When and if the Communists go to the Laos peace conference, scheduled...
John F. Kennedy has spent his first 100 presidential days in learning such facts of cold war life. Instead of granting the six month lull that Kennedy had asked for, Nikita Khrushchev intensified the cold war, with guerrilla warfare in Laos, subversion in South Viet Nam, and increased arms shipments to Cuba-Propaganda Windfall. When the President tried to halt the Communist thrust in Laos by proposing a cease-fire and a neutral status, with official hints of a U.S. "response" if the Communists did not accept his plan, his countrymen gave him plaudits for his coolness and courage...
...Asked onetime (1955-59) Army Chief of Staff General Maxwell D. Taylor, 59, to undertake a special study of U.S. ability to carry out "nonconventional" (meaning guerrilla) warfare, thereby stirring up speculation that Taylor was in line either to succeed Allen Dulles as director of the Central Intelligence Agency or to take charge of the U.S. operations aimed at ridding Cuba of Castro...