Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...powerful in Greek Communism. In 1950 he used it on the "old man" of Greek Communism, the late George Sianto's, who was head of the party in Greece during the years of Nazi occupation. When the tide of war started going against Greece's Communist guerrillas early in 1949, Zachariades knew at whom to point the finger: Guerrilla Leader Markos Vafiades, who mysteriously disappeared about that time and has not been heard from, since...
...some Vietnamese officials, entrusted with the grave responsibility of determining which citizens should be evacuated by air to Hanoi, were making sure their selections were rewarded. In Namdinh there was also courage: a bunch of Catholic teenagers strapped grenades to their belts and vowed they would start a guerrilla war against the Communists; a Vietnamese priest considered what the Communists might do to him, then calmly decided: 'I shall remain a few more days...
...Chou left Rangoon for home, the Burmese army delivered a farewell token of its own: it stormed into headquarters of a Red guerrilla band in Kachin state, less than 50 miles from the Red China border, and killed a couple of Chou's top-ranking agents in Burma...
...strongest and best friend of the U.S. in the Far East is 46-year-old Ramon Magsaysay, President of the Philippines. A guerrilla fighter against the Japanese in World War II, a passionate admirer of Americans, and the man who as Defense Secretary crushed the Communist Huks, Magsaysay was elected President by a landslide last November. In five months in office, he has had to make the difficult transition from hero-above-politics to political leader. From Manila, TIME Senior Editor John Osborne cabled this report on the tough opposition Magsaysay faces inside his own party...
...when the offensive was at its height, I got word that Luis Taruc wanted to see me again. I traveled in secrecy, since I did not want to break faith with the guerrilla by leading the soldiers to him. I waited, as arranged, in the church at Minalin, but Taruc did not show. Eventually, I got a note, again Taruc's "conditions" had dwindled...