Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paraders also carried double-life-size portraits of Stalin, Bulgarian Communist Boss Georgi Dimitroff and General Markos, self-proclaimed head of the "Free Greek State" (TIME, Aug. 25). The marchers' song told of the exploits of Greek guerrillas. Leaflets strewn in their wake read: "Death to Monarcho-Fascists; Out with Anglo-American invaders; Long live the Free Greek State." A poster showed a Greek guerrilla standing atop the Acropolis; in Bulgarian, French and English were the words: "Out of the flames and ruins of Anglo-American occupation and Monarcho-Fascism, a free and democratic Greece is rising...
...State and War Department observers in the Balkans were frankly worried over the prospect of the move. They believed that Markos' offer to down arms provided EAM ministers were taken into the Greek Government was probably the last political maneuver the Communists would make before stepping up guerrilla activities in Greece. Said one high-ranking U.S. Army officer: "Markos would probably be willing to settle for the Ministries of the Interior, Justice, War and Communications. But if we fall for that dodge after watching how it's worked here in the Balkans, we might as well pack...
...outlaw Big Harpe, who terrorized the Ohio Valley about 1800, had "coarse hair of a fiery redness." William Clarke Quantrill, the murderous Civil War guerrilla, was a redhead. So was Wild Bill Hickock, and Jack McCall who killed him. The records, Dr. von Hentig says, are thick with "Big Reds," "Reddys," and "Red Mikes...
...Guerrilla warfare in Greece's north continued. A high-ranking U.S. officer in Greece last week declared that there was merely a lull in the fighting. Terror still littered the countryside: last week, a picture from Yanina, in Epirus, showed two guerrillas identifying the severed heads of fellow guerrillas recently killed near the Albanian frontier. One of Greece's gravest shortages being transportation, the bodies were left behind...
...years. Russia, hinting it might veto, managed to delay the U.S. proposal. Washington let it be known that the 2nd Marine Division and the 82nd Airborne Division in North Carolina were standing by. These two units should be enough to handle whatever forces General Markos Vafiades, the Communist guerrilla leader in northern Greece, had at his disposal...