Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This is real guerrilla action," said Paris Police Chief Maurice Grimaud. Indeed it was. In a year that has been marked almost everywhere by student upheaval. Paris last week captured the record for the largest student riots so far in 1968. While the city prepared for the opening of Vietnamese peace talks, students staged the sharpest street fighting since the end of World War II. By week's end, the gulf between the government and students-who were joined by France's major unions-had widened into a serious anarchical challenge to Charles de Gaulle's government...
...capture and summary execution last October by Bolivian soldiers, Cuban Guerrilla Ernesto (Che) Guevara became an instant martyr of the New Left. Fidel Castro's former second-in-command was the victim of his own botched insurgency, in which he failed to follow his own precepts for guerrilla warfare. Yet, in the seven months since his death, the Che legend has given rise to a cult of almost religious hero worship among radical intellectuals, workers and students across much of the Western world...
...Bandwagon. Che cultists reverently equate him with such other leftist heroes as Mao Tse-tung, Ho Chi Minh, and French Marxist Régis Debray, a captured member of Che's Bolivian guerrilla band now serving a 30-year prison sentence. "I can't think of a revolutionary in the last century who had his romantic appeal," says Tariq Ali, 24, Pakistani-born leader of London's anti-Viet Nam demonstrators...
...their activities. One night we went to a fair in School 64--the Harriet Beecher Stowe School. Sunday morning, we went to one of the local Baptist churches. The neighbors would occasionally cook something for us--fried fish, perhaps, or a cake. The smaller kids adopted us and conducted guerrilla forays in the name of McCarthy. But they were our only converts...
...easy enough to argue that power at Columbia should be redistributed; it is harder to say how. Quite clearly, students have neither the maturity, time, permanent interest nor long-range commitment to play more than a contributing role. Quite clearly also, Columbia cannot accept guerrilla warfare against the administration as a valid strategy to achieve campus change. Columbia's highly individualistic faculty, while renowned for scholarly excellence, has never been noted for its community, responsiveness, or for desire to undertake the drudgery of administrative responsibility. Thus the task Columbia faces in rethinking its goals and organization...