Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...warfare, originally a Liberal guerrilla revolt against the oppression of a Conservative dictatorship, lost its point two years ago when General Rojas, though a Conservative himself, got fed up and overthrew the regime. The fighting slackened for a time-but the habit of bloodshed proved too strong. "Liberals kill Conservatives, then Conservatives kill...
Papagos was court chamberlain when in 1948 General George Catlett Marshall went to Athens to see what could be done to stop the Communist guerrilla army driving down from the north. "What you need," Marshall told King Paul, "is a supreme commander with enough gumption to lay down the law. You've got the right man here-Papagos." In six months Commander in Chief Papagos, with U.S. arms aid and the friendly advice of a U.S. team under General James Van Fleet, had licked the Communists...
After 18 days without a government, Indonesia got a new Premier to replace Dr. Ali Sastroamidjojo, whose Red-supported Nationalists fell afoul of the Indonesian army. In came Burhanuddin Harahap, 38, lawyer and onetime guerrilla who headed the Masjumi bloc in Parliament, Indonesia's strongest Moslem (and antiCommunist) party. Ignoring the discredited Nationalists, Harahap patched together a coalition of twelve other parties, and will provide a caretaker regime until Sept. 29, when Indonesians go to the polls for their first national election since becoming a nation six years...
...able to inquire at a dinner party: "Railroad deal, Mr. Morgan? What's all this about?" Mike gleefully quotes a Morgan man on Adventurer Mike Hedges: "Goddamit, I never saw a youngster with such a brass neck." Moving on to Mexico, Mike Hedges fell afoul of Guerrilla Leader Pancho Villa, and-as he tells it-narrowly escaped execution as an American spy. To prove his English nationality, he flashed Villa an orthodox Guardsman's salute and sang God Save the King-whereupon Villa delightedly conscripted Mike for ten months' service as a guerrilla leader. But Mike...
...seek surrender terms. Diem received him with an ultimatum: bring all rebel troops over to the government immediately or face destruction. Within 30 minutes Lam agreed to have his 8,000 regular troops in government ranks within the week, and ordered an estimated 30,000 to 50,000 guerrilla supporters to cease all anti-government activities. Other Hoa Hao warlords, including top General Tran Van Soai, have reportedly fled across the border to Cambodia, leaving their troops behind, leaderless and trapped in a tiny circle of paddies...