Word: guerrilla
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cops, in fact, seemed for a while to be the government's only answer. Authorities arrested more than 800 stu dents, sent plainclothesmen to keep an eye on others. Gradually, a form of urban guerrilla warfare broke out in Rio. Students hurled pointed stones dug up from the sidewalks, burned an army truck and at one point barricaded Avenida Rio Branco. Mounted police charged with drawn sabers; police also pelted students with tear-gas grenades, finally opened fire with rifles. From overhead windows, meanwhile, office workers showered police with such desktop flak as ashtrays and paperweights. Clashes between police...
Harvard didn't flinch. On July 29, "the first modern guerrilla warfare unit ever organized in the United States" held its first meeting in Emerson Hall. 175 sneaky undergraduates put their sangfroid on the line and joined the group, which announced it would emulate the tactics of Colonel Lawrence of Arabia. Four athletic credits were promised all participants...
Krulak was taken off Choiseul in 1943 aboard a PT boat skippered by a young Navy lieutenant named John F. Kennedy. Two decades later, President Kennedy chose Krulak as a special adviser on guerrilla war in Viet Nam. The leatherneck's rosy report, based on a 1963 inspection trip, contrasted with a State Department official's gloomy prognosis shortly before President Ngo Dinh Diem's assassination. "Were you two gentlemen," asked Kennedy, "in the same country...
...with the French left. The generals first told him in no uncertain terms that the army would never fire on students or coerce striking workers into resuming production. But, they added, in the event that the Communists made a determined effort to overthrow the regime through street fighting and guerrilla warfare, the army was prepared to intervene with its elite tank and paratroop units. That was all De Gaulle needed to know...
...been followed by other conflicts in Asia.) Instead, banking on his mandate, Johnson chose escalation, convinced that he could avoid a big land war by using "cheap" airpower to bomb the North. But the result, Wicker argues, was that Johnson simply created in the South big airbases that invited guerrilla attack and required all the more U.S. troops for their protection. Not only did the Northern bombing prove relatively ineffective against the Southern enemy; it was also difficult to halt, for fear of handing Hanoi a psychological victory...