Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Guerrilla at the Point. As a result, peace talks or not, General Abrams is certain to encounter considerably more heavy fighting in the South when he takes over from Westmoreland. Fortunately for the U.S., intensive fighting is an art at which Abrams has long demonstrated both instinctive mastery and uncommon zeal. Born in Feeding Hills, Mass., the son of a repairman on the Boston & Albany railroad, Creighton Abrams grew up learning to drill tin cans with a rifle, raising baby beef as a 4-H farm boy, and driving around in his Model T. In high school he was both...
...West Point, Abrams found the lowly estate of a plebe demeaning, and retaliated with his own guerrilla war against upperclassmen, aiming potshots with his BB gun judiciously due south of retreating backs and once smearing an upperclassman's radiator with Limburger cheese. His pranks found more acceptable outlets in stage-managing the academy's 100th Night Show, and his aggressiveness was more usefully employed on the football field. He graduated a mediocre 185th in his class of 276, but one course in which he excelled was horsemanship. That led him into the cavalry and, with the army...
...conducted a frightful race riot in New York City that killed an estimated 2,000 people and injured 8,000. The Civil War killed 500,000 soldiers-the equivalent of 3,000,000 in today's U.S. Afterward, the supposedly defeated white South defeated Reconstruction with a guerrilla war in which the Ku Klux Klan and other whites killed thousands of would-be Negro voters, imposed segregation, and infected the North with the very racism that the Civil War supposedly ended. Over the years, a dozen or more major Northern race riots followed the same pattern: whites invading black...
...usual, the Israelis were the apparent victors. Their admitted losses were one jet and one soldier, and they claimed to have knocked out four guerrilla bases and much of Jordan's ar tillery. The battle was, declared Chief of Staff Haim Bar-lev, "a blow greater than the one of Feb. 15"-when Israel unleashed a similar assault. But it is hardly likely to stop the Jordanian terrorists, who are now the heroes of the Arab world, from continuing their own destructive blows against Israel. Since the Israelis have threatened to answer each new terrorist raid with an attack...
...hold a six-day "Festival of Life" in comic contrast to what they call the Democratic Party's "National Death Convention," which will be running concurrently. The Yippies aim to set up a lakefront tent village in Grant Park, where they can groove on folk songs, rock bands, "guerrilla" theater, body painting and meditation. Through the park they will bear on a blue pillow their very own presidential candidate: Lyndon Pigasus Pig, a ten-week-old black and white porker now afattening at the Hog Farm, a hippie commune in Southern California. Other possibilities being considered...