Word: guerrilla
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Charlenes, some of whom actually fight. The V.C.'s attractive, much-advertised heroine, Ta Thi Kieu, packs four rifles at a time and boasts that she has participated in 33 battles. The vast majority of the Victoria Charlenes perform the myriad tasks that are needed to aid a guerrilla army operating in a hostile countryside without modern systems of supply, transport or communications...
...Eventually they are expected to graduate into the ranks of the Viet Cong proper, an estimated 10% of whom are women. Last week U.S. Marine Lieut. General Lewis W. Walt reported that in some parts of South Viet Nam, as much as 29% of the Viet Cong guerrilla force is female...
...Morality." Lately, the Viet Cong have been trying to recruit more women. Their propagandists argue that the size of guerrilla and hamlet forces could be increased 50% overnight with the proper infusion of womanpower in the fetch-and-carry job echelons. The National Liberation Front has its own civilian association for women, with a complete program of awards, honor rolls and instant good-conduct guides...
...moves provided new grist for China-watchers from Hong Kong to Harvard. At a Washington meeting of China experts last week, American University's Ralph Powell insisted that much of the trouble stems from Mao's idealistic demand that Red China's leaders should "act like guerrilla revolutionaries." Said Powell: "Mao is a romantic, and they are a bunch of bureaucrats. They don't want to oppose the old man; they just wish he would go away and leave them alone to run their own provinces." Berkeley's Robert Scalapino thought that "the Maoists, relying...
...absent in today's world. In short, no matter how enthusiastic China may be about them or how much Washington may fear them, successful "wars of national liberation" are much, much less probable than the Administration tends to believe. Since particular local conditions are decisive, failure to defeat the guerrillas in Vietnam will not increase the number of instances in which success is possible. On the other hand, expansion of the military build-up beyond the borders of Vietnam may well create the conditions making for guerrilla success in Thailand and elsewhere in Southeast Asia...