Word: guerrilla
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BATTLE OF ALGIERS. Italian Director Gillo Pontecorvo's newsreel-style account of the F.L.N. guerrilla war against the French has the brutal impact of a bombe plastique...
...many Americans was disturbed by the unexpected annexation of the Philippines. The Anti-Imperialist League, founded in Boston by such well-known men as Grover Cleveland and Andrew Carnegie, attracted 500,000 protesting members, as U.S. troops found themselves in the uncomfortable position of having to put down Philippine Guerrilla Leader Emilio Aguinaldo's liberation movement. "The Administration seeks to extinguish the spirit of 1776 in those islands," declared the league's 1899 platform. "We demand the immediate cessation of this war against liberty." Weeks later, President McKinley won a new term in office in a nation surprised...
...deaths in Northern Nigeria last year. As for General Ojukwu, he had to decide whether to surrender and throw himself on Gowon's mercy, stay in Enugu and fight to the death, or flee to the Ibo heartland south of Enugu, where he could carry on a guerrilla war. Whatever choice he makes, Biafra seemed doomed...
Whose War? Shannon sees Bobby's ambiguous position on Viet Nam as the product of both opportunism and emotionalism. The war was "the ugly child of the Kennedy Administration's relief in the efficacy of counterinsurgency techniques against guerrilla warfare. And no one had been a more devoted proponent of those techniques from 1961 to 1963 than Robert Kennedy." What sent Bobby fluttering to the dovecote was partly a desire to capitalize on liberal distaste for the war, partly a sincere disagreement on strategy, but mostly a "dislike of Lyndon Johnson, bordering upon hatred, which made it easier...
...Luce and the other I.V.S. protesters made sure that no newcomers from the New Left would sign their petition: all the signers were longtime (up to ten years) veterans of the Viet Nam scene. All felt that the American pacification effort, coupled with the harsh tactics necessary in a guerrilla war, have proved counterproductive to the U.S. aim of granting freedom of choice and opportunity to the Vietnamese. Massachusetts-born Hope Harmeling, 24, who teaches English for the I.V.S. in Saigon, touched another source of frustration by admitting that her view was "colored by not getting the response from Vietnamese...