Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Budapest came a bizarre proposal from the Communists. They wanted to exchange a British "spy" imprisoned in Hungary for a woman guerrilla leader facing the gallows in Malaya. Rarely has Russian diplomacy so blatantly acknowledged its real control over Communists everywhere. The barter proposal showed how fast, when the Reds want to make a deal, they cynically drop the pretense of a rebel band of local "patriots'" fighting "colonialism" in Malaya, or of a "People's Republic" having a genuine claim to sovereignty in Hungary. The principals in this cold war barter...
...only part of north Indo-China which the French still hold securely is a 6,000-square-mile tract of swampy land at the mouth of the Red River. Somewhere inside the French defenses, there are 40,000 Communist guerrillas. Again & again the French have thrown back concerted guerrilla action, but they have not been able to prevent a more insidious form of Communist attack: the blackmailing of peasant communities...
...Large segments of the population are embittered," he said. The government has separated families, turned children against their parents, handled land reform clumsily. In Southern China numerous independent guerrilla bands have taken over whole districts...
...simplest way to get information about Malaya's Communist guerrillas, decided High Commissioner Sir Gerald Templer, was to pay for it. His idea paid off. Among the top Communists killed through informers: Manap ("The Jap") Jepun, commander of a Communist guerrilla regiment, and Cheung Kit ("The Ape") Ming, Malacca state committeeman of the Communist Party. Rewards of about $25,000 were paid in each case. Last July, a good month for informers, the Malayan government paid out $75,000 in rewards, based on a rate of $825 for a common, or jungle variety Communist. By year...
...other nation. They are mostly docile peasants, content to harvest their rubber, rice, sugar, tea and coffee, but on one subject the Indonesians are as explosive as their island volcanoes: religion. Islam provided both the force and the fervor that ousted the Dutch in 1949; today, a fanatic guerrilla organization, Darul Islam (the Abode of Islam) threatens the unsteady republic with chaos and civil...