Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...World War II. but chose to leave the Commonwealth-was the most insistent on preserving its neutralist status. From 1953 on, Burma would not even accept free technical aid from the U.S., partly because it did not think the U.S. had done enough to make Nationalist China pull its guerrilla armies out of the Burma hills (they finally pulled the bulk...
Trujillo, who had already charged at the U.N. that 25 Soviet "guerrilla warfare experts" were training 3,000 men in Pinar del Rio for Castro's Caribbean "subversive activities," reacted quickly. He had his OAS delegate demand a special session of the OAS council to ask for an investigation. Castro snapped back angrily that he would permit no "interference" in his territory...
...proscribed," and "the acquisition and possession of land by foreign persons and companies shall be restrictively limited." Last week Prime Minister Fidel Castro enforced Article 90 with a vengeance. His agrarian-reform decree, signed in the six-hut eastern village of La Plata, scene of one of the first guerrilla attacks in Castro's revolution, outlawed the $300 million U.S. investment in Cuban sugar...
...donkey. The young are still growing up untutored and illiterate. The regime has no popular support. It's like Batista's government in Cuba last New Year's Eve. It's perpetuated in power solely by force. Alas, it is difficult to create a guerrilla campaign like the Fidel Castro movement in Cuba because Portugal is too closely policed, populated and cultivated-it doesn't have Cuba's jungle areas...
...British guerrilla expert, General Orde Wingate, had made it axiomatic that troops could not be expected to operate efficiently in enemy territory longer than three months at a time. When the remnants of the Marauders, dragging themselves over the 6,000-foot passes of the Kumon Range in the monsoon rains, made the assault on Myitkyina airfield, they had been five months behind the Japanese lines. They gained their objective, and then simply fell apart as an organization...