Word: guerrilla
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Army's chief of research. . Last month Trudeau popped off about civilians who make military policy, was obliged to issue a public apology. Trudeau then circulated a memo, author undisclosed, which damned the U.S.'s "politically sterile" policies in the cold war, called for "developing a guerrilla warfare capability under U.S. sponsorship from refugees from Communist-dominated countries, including Cuba." The Pentagon's civilian chiefs have ordered Trudeau to keep quiet...
...before going to the help of besieged villages. Thao led them into action himself in his Jeep. Where the roads ended, Thao and his men paddled off by canoe in silent search of the enemy. Thao set up a Communist-style intelligence network, paying peasants liberally for information on guerrilla moves...
...Western position in Laos tottered strategists began to look to the next line of defense. They did not have far to look. Down Laos' spiny eastern border runs what is called the Ho Chi Minh trail, which North Viet Nam's ex-guerrilla President used in his fight against the French. Last week there was almost as much activity along the trail as there was in Laos, as the Communists pushed supplies and reinforcements to the jungle fighters who are battling to take over South Viet Nam-a far richer prize than Laos...
...report monumentally understated its case. In the last few months, Communist guerrilla activity in South Vietnam has mounced; there have been three major clashes between government troops and guerrillas--all within 100 miles of Saigon, and one within forty-five miles of the capital. It is not, however, the intensity of guerrilla activity that makes South Vietnam an even more dangerous area for Communist penetration than Labs. It is the steady deterioration of government authority in the provinces during the last year. A reporter for Le Figaro likened the present chaotic condition of the Vietnamese countryside to that which prevailed...
...Recruits. With no cease-fire assured, the U.S. got a guerrilla operation of its own going in Laos. The main recruits: anti-Communist Meo tribesmen, a rugged breed who live only above 3,000 ft., raise opium and Husky-like white dogs. (Standing advice to U.S. pilots: "If you're shot down, find yourself a Meo and hang onto him for dear life. Those little guys will save your hide.") Last week U.S. guerrilla warfare experts, members of a new outfit called the Liaison Training and Advisory Group (LTAG), helicoptered into mountain valleys behind the enemy lines, where...