Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Diseased Part. Last week, six years after Viet Nam was partitioned, the Communists were stepping up their guerrilla activities. For the first time since 1954, the Reds are operating in bands of more than 50 men. Some are old Red cadres left behind at the time of partition; others are newly infiltrated guerrillas sent down from North Viet Nam through neighboring Laos or Cambodia, or put ashore from small fishing boats in the Gulf of Thailand. Their total strength is now estimated at 3,000 to 5,000 men, concentrated in the swampy Mekong Delta-"a diseased part...
...been, said the king in the week's understatement, an "easy victory." Faced with a guerrilla army which totaled 12,000 at its peak, Malaya had mustered some 350,000 men, spent $580 million and lost more than 11,000 lives, including civilians. But 6,700 Reds had been killed, 2,675 more captured or forced to surrender. Special tactics had been devised to cope with an enemy that struck and then melted into the jungle. Each time a guerrilla was slain or surrendered, a guerrilla band would descend on an outlying village, coerce some hapless peasant into joining...
Last week the guerrilla forces were down to an estimated 700 stragglers hiding out on the Thailand border. Already blessed with one of Asia's highest per capita incomes ($350 a year), Malaya is laying out some $200 million on highways, harbors and other long-range assets, hopes to make the young nation so prosperous that agitators will have no discontent to build...
...Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner, by Alan Sillitoe. Well-done short stories of Britain's slum dwellers and their guerrilla warfare with society's overdogs...
...Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner, by Alan Sillitoe. Well-done short stories of Britain's slumdwellers and their guerrilla warfare with society's overdogs...