Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Meanwhile, by encouraging incessant guerrilla campaigns in Laos and South Viet Nam, Red China seeks to gain control of Southeast Asia, thereby hoping to inflict a major defeat on the U.S. It keeps committing acts of aggression against its neighbors; having ruthlessly conquered and exploited Tibet, it is stirring up continuous border troubles with India. Last week India sent a strong note to Peking, protesting new border incursions by Chinese troops, who already occupy 12,000 sq. mi. of Indian territory. Peking moreover rivals Moscow for control of the Communist world, as became clear at the 22nd Party Congress, setting...
...weeks ahead, more and more U.S. and Vietnamese activity will become evident as a result of the visit to South east Asia by General Maxwell Taylor. Among U.S. plans to help South Viet Nam resist massive Communist guerrilla attacks: 1) the dispatch to South Viet Nam of U.S. operational personnel, who might include such groups as demolition experts, engineers, communications teams and anti-guerrilla training officers; 2) reconnaissance missions by U.S. planes along the border between North and South Viet Nam; and 3) bomber strikes at Communist guerrilla bases...
However, to be effective, guerrillas must be formally recognized as an instrument of the national armed forces. The only thing that distinguishes a guerrilla force from a band of brigands is national legal recognition...
...pressure for public discussion was stronger than ever. Meanwhile, a second species of left-wing extremists made trouble for the orthodox branch of the party. Not long ago, Brazilian police investigating their militant Peasant Leagues in the poverty-stricken northeast found copies of Mao Tse-tung's famous guerrilla warfare handbook, translated into Portuguese, with illustrations in which Chinese faces had been carefully changed to Latin American faces...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). Second of two parts on guerrilla warfare as taught by the U.S. Army...