Word: guerrilla
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...roads on dry days, which become a morass of mud during the rainy season, beginning in May. Communications facilities are virtually nonexistent, and jungle trails suffice for railroads. The patchwork of mountains and jungles makes tanks about as useful there as they would be atop Mount Everest; it is guerrilla country, and the shrewd Communist Pathet Lao fighters play it that...
...First Army Special Forces Group's Okinawa-based guerrilla experts are poised to parachute into the interior and to organize guerrilla warriors...
...trek through the northern jungles to a rendezvous with the brilliant Viet Minh ex-schoolteacher and field commander, General Vo Nguyen Giap. Over a bottle of warm champagne, which Giap bragged had been "taken from the body of a dead Frenchman," Giap explained how guerrilla warfare worked...
...Above all, counseled Giap, keep away from towns. "People in towns have chairs, tables, shoes, beds-you can't eat those things. Country folk have rice, eggs, chickens, pigs. Remember, those who rule the countryside rule the country." Prince Souphanouvong, though fuzzy on his Marxism, took the guerrilla lessons to heart. Equipped with a pair of black boots, Viet Minh aides and money, he marched off into the northern Laotian provinces, and in the next three years formed the nucleus of the Pathet...
Fidel Castro's revolution continues to devour its young. The latest to be condemned to the firing squad: Major William Morgan, 32, U.S.-born adventurer, who, only a year ago, won Castro's praise for foiling a guerrilla landing in Cuba by playing double agent. Found guilty of smuggling arms to anti-Castro guerrillas, Morgan at 10:30 one night last week became the 598th counter-revolutionary to be executed by the Castro government...