Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...happened is that a confrontation has been avoided." Taking the Chinese "war is inevitable'' position. Che went on: "The Cuban revolution has shown that in conditions of imperialist domination such as exist in Latin America, there is no solution but armed struggle. Cuba has shown that small guerrilla groups, well led and located at key points, can act as a catalyst of the masses, bringing them into mass struggle. We say that this can be done in a large number of Latin American countries...
...would be regrouped into 3,300-man brigades. Further, 1,800 smaller Guard and reserve units would be disbanded because they are dead weight-among them, crews of vintage 90-mm. antiaircraft guns, now useless against jets. But 1,000 new units would be created, such as guerrilla-warfare squads. The end result, McNamara hopes, will be a lean, modernized reserve capable of taking up front-line positions in as little as four weeks...
...strictly volunteer army, with the men serving five-year terms, it drew its troops largely from the warrior races of the north-Jats, Sikhs, Gurkhas, Dogras, Garhwalis. Over the past century, the Indian army has fought from France to China, and has usually fought excellently, whether pitted against Pathan guerrillas, Nazi panzer grenadiers or Japanese suicide squads. In the 1947-48 war in Kashmir, the Indians were fighting a British-trained Pakistani army very like themselves. Since independence, the Indian army has not encountered a really first-rate foe. The guerrilla war with the rebellious
South Viet Nam, where the U.S. is deeply committed in a bitter guerrilla war against the Reds, looks far more hopeful than it did a year ago. As the nation celebrated its seventh annual National Day last week, President Diem declared "unwavering faith in the future," and Sister-in-Law Madame Nhu was on hand in Saigon as a chic, steely illustration of that faith by laying the cornerstone for a new $100,000 social-welfare center. The country's welfare, social and otherwise, is still heavily at the mercy of the Communists, who demonstrated the fact by throwing...
...cops obviously concluded that they could use Stashinsky; a few days later, he was summoned back to police headquarters and blackmailed into becoming an informer. The area around Lvov was a hotbed of guerrilla activity by anti-Communist Ukrainian nationalists, many of whom had fought with the Nazis against the Russians during the war. Stashinsky's family, especially a younger sister, supported the guerrillas. Unless he cooperated, police told Stashinsky, his family would be sent to Siberia. Testified Stashinsky last week: "I had no choice. I wanted to see an end to the fighting. I wanted to protect...