Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hope springs eternal, and as 1964 began in South Viet Nam, there was still hope for victory in the grinding war against the Viet Cong Communists. But to many an American observer, the hope may be forlorn unless there are some victories soon over the Red guerrillas. In the third month after the overthrow of President Ngo Dinh Diem, the Viet Cong still reign supreme in 13 of the country's 43 provinces. The Communists control half of Long An Province on Saigon's southern flank (see map). From the fifth-floor terrace bar of the city...
...building aptly symbolizes the guerrilla warfare between efficiency and mere embellishment that has bedeviled the Foreign Office since the birth of modern diplomacy in the mid-19th century. Even its radiators belong in a museum. Though elderly, blue-liveried porters haul interminable scuttles of coke to feed 500 open fires, wintertime at the Foreign Office is a perpetual struggle. There are electric lights in the chandeliers, but the wiring is so overburdened that only Room 53, the Foreign Secretary's office, rates an electric heater (two, in fact). Telegraphic facilities were installed over the objections of an under secretary...
Rooftop Sniping. The trouble began when Makarios sent Kuchuk 13 proposals for amending the Cyprus constitution, which gave independence to Cyprus in 1960 after four years of bloody guerrilla war between Greek Cypriot guerrillas and British troops. The constitution was a complicated document, carefully drawn to safeguard the rights of the tiny nation's 100,000 Turkish Cypriots as well as the 500,000 Greek Cypriot majority. The Turkish community got veto power over the most important legislation and was promised 30% of all government appointments. To enforce the constitution, Greece was allowed to send 850 troops to Cyprus...
...Saigon's southern flank, where conditions have become precarious. A U.S. adviser says wryly that there is no need in Long An for the government's plan to abolish some of the overextended outposts. "The Viet Cong," he says, "are doing that for us." In a guerrilla war, it is often impossible to tell who is winning. But in Viet Nam some things do seem certain: many more lives will be tragically lost, the war cannot possibly be won by 1965, and a rich jewel of a country carved out of ancient Indo-China sees...
...Dominican Republic, whose constitution al Presidents were ousted by military coup. Honduras, poor even by Central American standards, desperately needs Alliance for Progress aid ($4.2 million in fiscal 1963). Recognition of the Dominican Republic will enable the U.S. to keep a closer eye on a potentially dangerous Castroite guerrilla flare-up there. The soldiers running the two countries made only distant promises of new elections, but the U.S. considered it a start. As one Washington official put it: "Withholding recognition was a necessary step. But nonrecognition, in the long run, is not a satisfactory policy. Nonrecognition has never beaten anybody...