Word: guerrilla
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That possibility was underscored in a notebook that was prepared by a Viet Cong political leader and captured recently by U.S. troops. In it, the guerrilla conceded that the V.C. could not deal , the U.S. and its allies "a lethal blow" and were thinking of turning toward a coalition government as a means of achieving what they could no longer hope to win on the battlefield. The Communists of late have been savagely mauled in battles from Dak To to the Delta...
...unlikely that the Allies will offer them membership in a coalition government, but some interim formula could be arranged that would ensure the Viet Cong continued sway over the hamlets they now control. Eventually, a solution could be worked out along the lines of the one that followed the guerrilla war in Greece, where the Communists eventually achieved limited political rights. Such a settlement is never entirely foolproof-witness the fact that the Greek army has since stepped in to strip away those rights-but there are few who would not find it preferable to several more years...
Numbering 750 hard-core fighters, plus several thousand support troops, the guerrillas have repeatedly attacked Indonesian military sites and terrorized Malaysian border areas since July. They have also tried to enlist by intimidation Borneo's primitive Dayak tribesmen, the descendants of legendary headhunters. This tactic provoked a reaction that their Maoist guerrilla handbooks did not even hint at. Meeting terror with terror, the Dayaks exploded in an avenging rampage of killing, burning and cannibalism against all Chinese...
Burrowed in Bunkers. A few Chinese are drifting back to their villages under the protection of reinforced Indonesian troops, but the guerrillas themselves remain threatening and elusive. As in Viet Nam, they burrow deep in underground bunkers and in mountainside caves, attack only when they consider the odds right. Two weeks ago, 500 guerrillas caught Indonesian troops in a heavy mortar barrage at Fir Mountain, near the Malaysian Borneo state of Sarawak, where the soldiers had stumbled upon a major guerrilla encampment. While the Indonesians flew in more troops, the Malaysians evacuated Indonesian casualties...
...said that Communist casualties increased 50% this year over 1966. "The enemy can no longer feel safe in much of South Viet Nam," said the admiral, adding: "I do not want to overstate our gains. The Communist forces in South Viet Nam retain a dangerous capability for terrorism and guerrilla warfare." Just how unsafe some Viet Cong feel was demonstrated last week. A platoon of Viet Cong, 38 strong, defected and turned themselves in to some startled South Vietnamese south of Danang. It was the largest unit defection...