Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...employee into a fighter. Linehan rushed repairs on a destroyer, burrowed through bomb rubble for precious parts, on Christmas Day watched U.S. ships slip safely out to sea ahead of the invading Japanese. Then, with Manila in flames, Linehan himself slipped out of the doomed city and joined a guerrilla band...
...excused by blaming the leaders?" Author-Actor Remarque replies vaguely: "Each man has to decide for himself." The private goes back to his outfit-for no other reason than that he is afraid he will be shot if he tries to desert. He gets shot anyway by a Russian guerrilla whom he has just saved from execution. His death only begs the issue. In sentimentalizing the simple German soldier's loving heart and patriotic devotion, the film floats emptily away from its central theme: Isn't there a place where taking orders stops and personal responsibility begins...
...their chartered bus one night last week for the 15-mile ride back to the U.S. naval base at Guantánamo Bay. The Cuban driver swung out of town, and the bus bucketed along the narrow muddy road. Suddenly the headlights picked up a band of armed men. Guerrilla fighters in Cuban Rebel Chieftain Fidel Castro's 19-month-old uprising against Dictator Fulgencio Batista, they climbed aboard the bus and ordered the driver to turn east...
...gone, and the feeling of superhuman power is replaced by the dull ache of responsibility. Many Asian lands-Burma, Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Korea, Ceylon-are by now some ten years into the grey morning-after of independence, and political leaders who had once been dashing conspirators and heroic guerrilla captains have become aging politicians, surrounded by corruption, inefficiency and rivalry. All but the most obtuse are ready to admit that throwing out the imperialists was the easiest part of their job, and concede that they have just about run out of ideas for combatting Asia's measureless poverty, unemployment...
Alberto Lleras Camargo, 51, the journalist-statesman leader of Colombia's Liberal Party, stepped before a radio microphone last week and agreed to serve as the nonpartisan President of his deeply troubled country. Colombia's backlands have been bloodied by a no-quarter guerrilla war between Conservatives and Liberals that has taken more than 100,000 lives in the past ten years; now its economy is strained by heavy overseas indebtedness. And the military junta that has been in charge since the fall of Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla last May has been waiting with thinning patience...