Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...victims-were Louis Drouin, 28, a short, stocky mulatto, and Marcel Numa, 21, a tall handsome Negro, both members of a 13-man guerrilla force that landed on Haiti's southern coast four months ago. Operating independently of other scattered bands in Haiti, they ambushed troop columns, encouraged peasants to defy their Duvalier overseers. Papa Doc had no trouble finding out who they were; in tiny Negro Haiti, the word gets around fast by telediol grapevine...
...State Department, the Pentagon, the CIA, USIA and AID to review and re-form each of their plans for dealing with Viet Nam. Some old ideas have been newly advanced. The most obvious answer is to extend the war to North Viet Nam with bombing raids and stepped-up guerrilla attacks. But the Administration is most reluctant to make such a move, fearing that it would bring the U.S. into a dangerously real confrontation with Red China...
...Another guerrilla major reported that during an inspection trip he had been repeatedly arrested by leaders of the rebels' own youth wing, the Jeunesse, who "would not respect my rank." One loutish Jeunesse captain even threatened to have his fraternal superior executed for "troublemaking," until the major paid him a 3,000-franc ($20) bribe...
...MALAYSIA: solidly pro-West, but disrupted internally and harassed by guerrilla raids from Peking's ally, Indonesia...
Southeast Asia's Communist guerrilla armies, in the mistaken belief that Peking can now stand up to Washington with an atomic punch...