Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There was a wave of liberalism through the hemisphere," he remembers. "News filtered in to us of the university reform in Argentina, the fight in Cuba against Dictator Gerardo Machado, Guerrilla Augusto César Sandino's battle against U.S. Marines in Nicaragua, the opposition to the tyrant Augusto Leguia in Peru...
...fact been successfully provoked by Algeria's Moslem rebels. Assembling in Tripoli in mid-December, the leaders of the rebellion reorganized their "government" by dropping four extremist "ministers" (known as "the men of Cairo" and "the men of Peking") and giving increased power to three ex-guerrilla commanders headed by tough, commonsensical Belkacem Krim (TIME, July 7, 1958). Since De Gaulle has long insisted that he will deal only with the military leaders of the revolt, the new rebel "Cabinet" seemed to smooth the path toward negotiations between France and the rebels. But before meeting with De Gaulle...
Born on the island of Negros of part-Chinese ancestry (his last name is a cor ruption of the Fukien dialect and means "sixth son"), Lacson has been an amateur boxer, soccer player, anti-Japanese guerrilla, lawyer, professor and newspaper columnist. During the war he fought in the battles for Manila and Baguio, and was cited by the U.S. Sixth Army "for gallantry under fire." When Japan's touring Premier Nobusuke Kishi asked him if he had learned Japanese during the war, Lacson snapped, "I was too busy shooting at Japanese to learn any." Of Americans, he says: "They...