Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Karens number only 1,500,000 of Burma's 17 million, but their hard-hitting troops terrify the Burmans. Trained by the British as anti-Japanese guerrilla units, the Karens are the best-equipped, best-officered group in the battle royal which has been raging for control of Burma (see map). The Karens' rivals include: 1) the government, which holds a few beleaguered cities and some areas in the far north and south; 2) the Red Flag (Trotskyite) Communists; 3) the White Flag (Stalinist) Communists; and 4) the White Band (People's Volunteer Organization), followers of assassinated...
...excommunication of Marshal Tito. Low managed to get them in advance of general publication and, as printed in TIME'S August 23, 1948 issue, they were the first complete summary of this revealing correspondence. Other Low stories that you may recall include his account of the Communist guerrilla raid on the Greek town of Naousa (TIME, Jan. 31), and Patriot George Magalios and the American aid program for Greece...
...three Confederate-loving buckaroos who keep things moving are Joel McCrea, Zachary Scott and Douglas Kennedy, owners of the Three Bell Ranch. The complicated action is sped up-as well as made more complicated-by cattle-rustling Victor Jory who, working as a Union Army guerrilla fighter, steals their cattle, burns down their ranch, and starts cutting in on their gunrunning racket...
...Eighteen months after the U. S. began aiding the Greek Government's war against the Communist guerrilla forces...
...guerrilla leader sued for peace...