Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that. There is a division of command. The analogy with Malaya is very, very close. There were British combat troops by the thousands in the jungle, and they stayed there. Choppers were used to supply them, and they did not come out. And that is how they beat the guerrillas. There was none of this hit-and-run business. The initiative was British, not guerrilla. In South Viet Nam, it is the diametric opposite. There is no South Vietnamese and no American initiative at all. We command and control nothing...
Abolish the Holidays. Heating up the war anew, the Viet Cong opened a barrage of almost daily attacks, concentrating on the rice-rich Mekong Delta south of Saigon. Boldly, an 800-man guerrilla force ambushed an infantry battalion near Mocay, shot down a T-28 fighter plane that swooped to the rescue -killing its American pilot-and simultaneously lobbed .81-mm. Red Chinese-made mortars into Mocay itself. But the government got in its own licks, several times counterattacked with refreshing aggressiveness. On a forested ridge near the Laotian border, troops overran a Viet Cong staging camp for infiltrators coming...
...pilot was identified in Washington as Capt. Robert N. Brumet, whose wife lives in Bethesda, Md. He was the 123rd American killed in action in the guerrilla war since 1962. His body was recovered...
...Communist attacks were a challenge to Premier Maj. Gen. Nguyen Thanh, who has called that area one of the most critical in South Viet Nam. He has been trying to assert Vietnamese control there, where guerrilla attacks have been almost constant in recent months...
...under Hendrik Verwoerd's oppressive regime. Most of the refugees are young men (usually in their 20s or 30s) headed for freedom-fighter training camps, either around Tanganyika's capital of Dar es Salaam or else in the Leopoldville Congo, where promising recruits are picked for intensive guerrilla and sabotage courses in Ethiopia, Egypt and Algeria...