Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...demeanor, were both significant. Though the eldest son of Chiang Kaishek, Nationalist China's venerable president, Chiang Ching-kuo, 53, is the mystery man of Formosa who avoids the limelight. Partly, the mystery has professional reasons: as chief of Formosa's secret police and head of the guerrilla activities directed against Red China, he naturally seeks the shadows...
Unhappy Generals. The People's Liberation Army-now 2,600,000 strong-is by far the most impressive product of Red China, but there is evidence of dissatisfaction at the top and bottom of the army. Among the generals, those having a guerrilla mentality conflict with the professionals, who argue that to obtain the supplies needed by a modern army, China must cooperate closely with the Soviet Union. Defense Minister Peng Teh-huai, leading spokesman for the professionals, was dismissed from his post in 1959, but remains a member...
Book Learning. An Indonesian guerrilla campaign against Borneo and Sarawak may well continue, since Djakarta always needs a foreign diversion to draw attention from domestic difficulties. In Indonesian Borneo, which adjoins Sarawak, Sukarno has set up guerrilla camps along 200 miles of border, and is training 1,000 Red-lining Chinese from Sarawak, following the guidelines of Indonesian Defense Minister General Abdul Haris Nasution, an expert on guerrilla warfare who has written his own book on the subject. Bands of his guerrillas pushed across the border to raid Dyak villages, clashed with patrols of British-led Gurkhas and Sarawak police...
Died. Lieut. Colonel James Cushing, 53, U.S. Army guerrilla leader who stayed behind on the Philippine island of Cebu after the Japanese occupation and in 1944 captured a Japanese admiral carrying plans for defense strategy, thus hastening the liberation of the islands; of a heart attack; in Manila. With the plans safely in Australia, Cushing disregarded orders by releasing the admiral to put a stop to a massacre of Cebu islanders by Japanese troops, and lost his rank, later restored...
...whetstone; the cartridges were loaded with a mixture of dynamite, amatol, and the flash powder from Chinese firecrackers. For every two men, there might be one obsolete rifle and 15 rounds of ammunition; with luck, a platoon would also sport several carbines or an automatic weapon. Yet these ragtag guerrilla forces, scattered across 36,000 square miles of mountain and malarial jungle, were able to tie down a large number of enemy units, kill 7,000 Japanese troops, and secure intelligence of the highest value. And here is one modern guerrilla insurrection that was led by Americans-for this...