Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...soldiers swept through a village, rounding up peasants suspected of being guerrillas; some of the men had been found crouching together, unable to explain why they were not out in the fields working. One offered a soldier 1,000 piasters ($13.60) to set him free; the soldier gladly accepted the payoff, then tagged the captive with a white scarf identifying him as a probable Viet Cong. Shirts were stripped from backs to check for the guerrilla's telltale marks of pack straps. Forty-five minutes later, the helicopters were headed back to Saigon with a haul of 14 prisoners...
Replacing Terror. The operation, called an "eagle strike," is a tactic by which the new government and its U.S. advisers hope to add speed and initiative to anti-guerrilla operations. Though such strikes have long been used in Viet Nam for missions big and small, the program now being launched aims to carry out small-scale, search-and-seize missions as never before, especially in the heavily infiltrated delta. For the first time the U.S. Utility Tactical Transport Company based at Saigon airport has been assigned "eagle strikes" as a permanent duty...
...theory of strategic pluralism," a theory based on the diversification of weapon systems, was adopted as a defense strategy by the Kennedy Administration in 1961. Strategic missiles were increased in number. Conventional troops were made more mobile. New guerrilla forces were established. Since these costly revisions have been achieved the Administration is now cutting back expenditures...
Jackie made other requests, all meant to symbolize things that her husband had stood for. She asked that a member of the Army's Special Forces, wearing the green beret distinctive of those guerrilla warfare specialists, be included among the honor guard. Because of Jack's love of the Navy, she requested that the Navy hymn be played as the casket was carried up the Capitol steps. She invited the Navy Choir and Tenor Luigi Vena, who had sung at her wedding, to sing at the cathedral. Recalling that Jack had recently marveled at an exhibition by Britain...
...Numbers. But such nasty little showboating stunts to disrupt the elections were not the only things the Castroites had in mind. Last week Be tancourt offered proof that Communist Cuba was sending in heavy arms ship ments for full-scale guerrilla warfare. On display in Caracas was an arsenal of three tons of F.A.L.N. weapons: 31 submachine guns, five 60-mm. mortars, 20 bazookas, 28 packages of plastic explosives, 81 Belgian automatic rifles with 20,000 rounds of ammunition. Most of the serial numbers and other markings were ground off. But one rifle still had a number - it turned...