Word: guerrilla
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fine print of its public pronouncements that it will not countenance a Communist South Vietnam or the creation of any coalition regime in Saigon which might lead to a Communist seizure of power." The government seems to ask of Hanoi that it bring an end to guerrilla activities in the South, agree to a permanently divided Vietnam, and accept a government in the South with no Communist influence. By quitely insisting on these conditions, it makes the prospect of negotiations meaningless for Hanoi and the Viet Cong, who have fought 20 years for exactly what Washington would have them renounce...
Harvard's Army R.O.T.C has instituted a voluntary program concerned primarily with the development of skills employed in counter-guerrilla warfare, Captain Frederic L. Shean, assistant professor of Military Science, announced yesterday...
...only was the mass-assault third phase in Mao Tse-tung's guerrilla rule-book arrested, but the V.C. found themselves being rooted out of havens they had long considered invulnerable. Twice in the last month-first near Ben Cat in the "Iron Triangle" north of Saigon, then last week in Operation Concord in Binh Dinh province-rhas-ciwc allied sweeps penetrated preserves lethally off limits to anyone but Communists for 15 years...
Raids in the Backlands. Not every guerrilla band in Latin America is controlled by Castro; to think so would attribute far too much importance to him. But most of them fight in his name and with his methods. In Venezuela, hardly a week goes by that the Castroite FALN terrorists do not shoot a cop in Caracas, dynamite an oil pipeline, or raid some remote village. Last week one band clashed with government troops 200 miles south of Caracas, and when the shooting was over two guerrillas and two soldiers were dead. In neighboring Colombia, long troubled by a siege...
Scarcely four months ago, on the eve of the monsoons, the Viet Cong scented victory as well as rain in the air. They had successfully moved from Phase 1 (political agitation) in the Red guerrilla manual of arms to Phase 2 (terrorism and small-unit battles). Hoping the monsoons would give them haven, they readied Phase 3: all-out battalion and regiment-size assaults on the frayed and battle-weary South Vietnamese army...