Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...comrades whose wives these were had other rough & ready ways after years of guerrilla society. They used floor rugs as blankets and toilets as wash basins. At a hospital, Liu found the comrade "nurses" ripping the labels off the medicines and reclassifying the bottles according to four sizes and five colors. As for such high-reform," sounding most old government comrades projects as treated them "agrarian as rackets. When a mock trial with agitator witnesses led to a landlord's being beaten to death or shot, the party members div vied the land and farm implements among his neighbors...
Hunters & Bali Girls. In the late fall Dr. Ellinger organized his first Abenlen expedition, but came back to his classes emptyhanded. At Christmas time he tried again. Leaving his Igorot wife behind in Bontoc, he traveled with a photographer and an experienced guerrilla to the outskirts of a small village in the Zambales foothills. There he found a family of Abenlens. All 15 of them were living in a single grass hut eight feet square...
...Communists choose to put a new army below the Yalu. it would risk the same fate that would have befallen the first. If the Communists want to contest the area between the waist and the Yalu with guerrilla activity, ROK troops, with U.S. air support, should be able to carry on the fight as long and as well as the Chinese...
...Guerrilla. In World War II, Khrushchev took charge of the mass guerrilla movement that scorched the black earth of the Ukraine in the Wehrmacht's rear, won the Stalingrad Medal for his services as a political commissar. At war's end he went back to the war-charred Ukraine with orders from the Kremlin to 1) revive its agriculture and heavy industry; 2) liquidate the Ukrainians who had collaborated with the Nazis. He succeeded on both counts. "Half the leading workers have been done away with," he boasted...
Colombia's three-year-old civil war is still dragging on. Ruling by decree, the Conservative government keeps a strong grip on the cities, but in the countryside, hardy Liberal partisans ("bandits" in the official communiques) wage constant guerrilla war against government outposts. Last week, in one of their boldest strikes yet, "bandidos" made a 3 a.m. New Year's Day raid on the important Palanquero air force base, 75 miles northwest of the capital...