Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...guerrilla war, the Viet Cong distinguished themselves with one of their grisliest blows. Ambushing a truck convoy transporting twoscore women and children in the central mountains, 150 Communist terrorists shot or stabbed to death six women and five children, wounded 21 other women. Then the Reds mutilated several of the bodies, carving out the victims' hearts and spleens. The government retaliated with less savage successes of its own. Three hundred miles north of Saigon, Rangers overran a Viet Cong ordnance depot, capturing 166 weapons, TNT, and 1,000 detonators. Twenty miles north of the capital, a self-defense corps...
...stand to receive some additional expert counsel. Last week, in line with U.S. President Johnson's recent call for "more flags" in South Viet Nam, the Philippines were negotiating to dispatch 75 Filipino special-forces troops to Saigon. Many will be veterans of Manila's successful anti-guerrilla campaign against the Communist Huks...
...bring down Diem: Roman Catholics discriminate against Buddhists. Since the few Catholics in the village lived just like everyone else, this argument got nowhere either. Next, the Reds closed the village school and carted away the desks, benches and blackboards. Over a hundred young men were drafted into the guerrilla band. The Viet Cong billeted themselves on the villagers without payment. One housewife complained later that they "ate like water buffalo...
...nasty guerrilla conflict in South Viet Nam is beginning to look more and more like a full-scale conventional war. Ominously, the Communist Viet Cong are often forsaking the shadowy, hit-run tactics they have heretofore used in favor of challenging the government in set-piece battles. In the past fortnight alone, the Reds have mounted battalion-strength attacks in Tayninh and Kienhoa provinces, as well as the Delta village of Goden. Last week, in Chuong Thien province, they unleashed their biggest assault...
Refusing to Fade. Surging out of the forest, 1,000 Red troops overran Kienlong in the guerrilla-controlled Camau Peninsula area (see map), killing 60 of the 90 Civil Guard defenders, and publicly disemboweling the district chief, his wife, infant son and two other officials. When the government counterattacked with 2,000 air-supported troops, the guerrillas pulled out of the village. But instead of fading into the landscape, they were reinforced by a third 500-man battalion, making it the Viet Cong's first regimental-size operation. Then the Communists stood and fought half a dozen battles that...