Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...response to a murderous series of Communist attacks against U.S. military forces and installations in South Viet Nam, President Lyndon Johnson gave the orders that on three different days last week sent American and Vietnamese warplanes smashing north of the 17th parallel at Red supply dumps, communications systems and guerrilla staging areas...
...Slipping past the outer defense perimeter manned by Vietnamese guards, they cut their way through an apron of barbed wire, crawled on their bellies toward the compound gate. Just as they reached it, a U.S. sentry, SP5 Jesse Pyle of Marina, Calif., spotted them and opened fire, killing one guerrilla. The noise roused the sleeping Americans, saved many from certain death had the Viet Cong slipped inside. As it was, the attack force riddled Pyle-the eighth American to die at Pleiku-tossed homemade grenades wrapped in bamboo or placed in beer cans at the barracks, wounded 25 Americans...
Where? A number of future North Vietnamese targets stand out: Highway 12 to Laos, a newly built guerrilla turnpike; the military-industrial complex of Vinh, where the Hanoi railway ends; a big rail bridge at Tanhhoa, spanning a deep ravine; the Hanoi-Haiphong highway; petroleum storage tanks in Haiphong; the rail line entering North Viet Nam from China at Dongdang. As a heavily populated civilian center of 644,000, Hanoi is unlikely to be hit before the others, although the North Vietnamese do not seem sure of that: one eyewitness saw residents digging trenches in parks and gardens there last...
...badlands banditry that had been going on unabated for more than a decade. Ruiz Novoa initiated a program of civic action by the army to help peasants improve their lot. He also reorganized Colombia's army into what is today South America's most effective anti-guerrilla force, managed to reduce the bandits to the status of a mere nuisance...
Continued American bombing of North Vietnam is "leaving us in the position of having either to bomb or to look ridiculous after future guerrilla attacks," Barrington Moore Jr., senior research fellow in the Russian Research Center, told an overflow crowd of over 500 last night in Lowell Lecture Hall...