Word: guerrilla
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...result there are three Communisms in the world today. The virulent Chinese variety would infect the world with "wars of national liberation." The Russian brand has graduated from the minor leagues of guerrilla warfare, and wields vast military and economic power in hopes of winning the world to Marxism through example. The Red states of Eastern Europe have developed a milder, more "relaxed" strain, one better suited to their lack of economic and military muscle. Fragmented by history and welded by ideology, they have arrived at an almost dialectical synthesis of the tensions tearing at them: nationalist, neutralist Communism...
...house arrest during Nkrumah's visit, Ankrah broke relations with Sékou Touré. He re-established the relations Nkrumah had broken off with Britain, which returned the compliment by recognizing his regime (as did the U.S. last week). Ankrah also closed up The Redeemer's guerrilla training camps with the curt announcement that Ghana's "days of harboring political refugees to subvert other states are over." Then he ordered 900 Russian and 200 Chinese "advisers" to leave the country...
...these delegations could be classed as African "radicals," but the walkouts removed enough of them to give the moderates their day. When the Rhodesia question at last came before the conference, the resolution that succeeded was not Algeria's-which called for a guerrilla war against Rhodesia-but a more orthodox measure calling on Great Britain to use force if necessary to suppress the Rhodesian rebellion...
...admitted that the Viet Cong received some aid from Hanoi, "they don't have the Seventh Fleet and the U.S. Army," he said. He called ridiculous charges that the Viet Cong controlled the countryside through terrorism. "The first thing the Special Forces learn is that you can't conduct guerrilla warfare without popular support...
Thailand's infant but active guerrilla war falls into the familiar pattern of Communist subversion in Southeast Asia, and has disturbing similarities to the beginning of the war in Viet Nam. Red China's Foreign Minister Chen Yi, in fact, pointedly predicted last year that the struggle in Thailand would soon start. For their launching spot, the Communists picked a remote region of Thailand that is not only backward economically (annual income is well below the $100 national average) but harbors people who are ethnically closer to the Laotians than to the Thais. Many village youths, impatient with...