Word: guerrilla
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clock in the morning of April 20, three men walked along a narrow mountain road toward Muyupampa, an isolated little farming town in the foot hills of the Bolivian Andes. They all admitted that they were on the way down from a guerrilla camp in the high jungle, although just what they had been doing there remains a matter of some dispute. Word that they were on the way had somehow preceded them to Muyupampa. Detachments of troops and plainclothes national police had moved into town the night before. They arrested the men without a fight...
Bustos had entered Bolivia on a forged passport, but he claimed he had barged into the guerrilla camp by mistake. He was held for trial...
...costly experiment, which was conducted in the la Drang Valley in November of 1965. During six weeks of bloody fighting, the North Vietnamese commander was instructed to accept battles he could not possibly win. He was ordered to keep up the fight longer than any good hit-and-run guerrilla army should. "We had to learn how the Americans fought," explained a high-ranking defector later...
...Structure of Command. Each Viet Cong guerrilla is a cog in a complicated, disciplined command structure. At the apex in Hanoi sits Ho Chi Minh and his top political commissar, Le Duan, 59, who handles overall strategy for Ho's revolution. Also in Hanoi is Lieut. General Nguyen Van Vinh, 50, who directs the southward flow of men and supplies. It is to him that COSVN reports. Until he died last month, General Nguyen Chi Thanh commanded COSVN, aided by at least six other...
Lusteveco's U.S. owners, including Edward M. Grimm and Charles ("Chick") Parsons, who was a Navy guerrilla in World War II (and later told about it in Rendezvous by Submarine), promptly set about rebuilding. By 1963, Grimm, Parsons and colleagues were able to sell their 50% interest for $6.6 million to a group of Filipino businessmen and investors headed by Jose B. Fernandez, now 43 and the company's chairman. U.S.-educated (Fordham, Harvard Business School) and a member of a wealthy Manila family, Fernandez tapped as president a young American: Donald I. Marshall...