Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...worth of food a year to some 125,000 refugees at 86 remote sites-refugees who might otherwise have to turn to the Communists for survival. Among them are several thousand Meo tribes men who, freed from the necessity of tilling the rice fields, wage hit-and-run guerrilla warfare against the Communists in Pathet Lao-controlled areas of northern Laos...
With all the coy ferocity of a Ming dynasty dragon, a deftly carved ivory Guerrilla crouches, defending the motherland against the wicked U.S. air pirates. In Reception, a stalwart group of ivory workers, looking like a miniature convocation of George Segal's plastered everymen, hangs breathlessly on the open-ended words of a Susskindly Chairman Mao. As propaganda, China's purveyors of political wisdom have clearly produced sculpture that is less polemic than totemic, but as art for art's sake-the show has more chuckles than any fun house at the Venice Biennale...
...speakers agreed that Chinese intervention in South Vietnam is unlikely. Frank Armbruster, director of Guerrilla Warfare Studies at the Hudson Institute, said Saturday that the Vietnamese terrain is unsuited to the Chinese human-wave attacks. He pointed to the shortage of armor in the Chinese army and Chinese unfamiliarity with Vietnamese terrain...
Egal, a portly, fast-talking merchant's son who was educated in Britain, has called a halt to the guerrilla war that Somali tribesmen have waged for years over disputed land with neighboring Kenya and Ethiopia. He has dismissed 3,000 troops from his 11,000-man army and put the rest to work part-time clearing land and building roads. He has asked to join the newly formed East African Economic Community (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda) because he feels that Somalia has a better chance of building a viable economy by cooperating with Black Africa rather than with...
...Christianity as one of its first goals. In effect, the advocates of revolution would divide the church into a committed rebel sect, fanatically dedicated to the cause of change, and the vast majority of believers who cannot quite see that to be a Christian necessarily means to be a guerrilla. It is hard to reconcile that prospect with peace and good will...