Word: guerrilla
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hesitation. The bitter words marked De Sapio's first public declaration in the guerrilla war that has split New York Democrats for two years. And the De Sapio statement was a direct challenge to the Democratic likes of Eleanor Roosevelt, Herbert Lehman and Thomas K. Finletter, all leaders in the anti-De Sapio movement. Retorted Lehman: "The reform leaders will, of course, not be frightened by this formal declaration of war by a boss whose political troops have grown fewer and fewer...
...paratroopers standing off a 29,000-man army nurtured and trained by the U.S. was bad enough. But Western diplomats in Laos feared that Kong Le was actually gaining strength, picking up new recruits in the villages as well as seasoned units of the pro-Communist Pathet Lao guerrilla movement. The government of Premier Boun Oum was even talking of moving south out of Vientiane, which was won from Kong Le just last month...
...Techniques. The killings, bringing Castro's total executions to 587, will not stamp out the movement. The top leadership operates in Miami, headquarters of the Frente, which hopes to become a sort of supreme command for the harassment of Castro. The Frente is making impressive preparations: guerrilla training camps in Florida and Guatemala, arms-carrying PT boats that average a trip a week to Cuba, an air group of some 80 flyers who reportedly fly out of the mystery field at Retalhuleu in Guatemala and the inactive U.S. Marine Corps Opa-Locka airbase in Florida...
...Senate launched the 87th Congress with its own version of an ancient liberal-conservative battle, but in contrast with the House's guerrilla war it seemed as pro forma as a Capitol guide's speech. Question at issue: How big a vote should be necessary to restrict Senate debate-and thereby cut off legislation-delaying filibusters...
...South Viet Nam, U.S. money and U.S. leadership have slowly begun to wean the Vietnamese defense forces away from the "Let's spend the night in the fort" concept of guerrilla fighting that they learned from the French. But the whole establishment is threatened by 350,000 well-armed Viet Minh Communists from north of the 17th parallel. Cambodia, citadel of Southeast Asian neutralism, and Laos are the weakest spots in the defense chain...