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Word: guerrillas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...guerrilla wars of the past, we have furnished much of the material and most of the men and most of the lives. We are rich and strong and populous. There are nearly 200-million of us. But there are 2-billion people in the free world. And it makes little sense for a nation with one-tenth the world's population to be fighting wars all over the world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nixon's War Views | 3/4/1968 | See Source »

Spitting Fire. Elsewhere in Harlem, a Mau Mau guerrilla, toting a machete, bellowed: "We'll cut off whitey's head!" In Detroit, plans were announced for a convention to map out a separate black nation in five Southern states...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Races: The Beatification of Malcolm X | 3/1/1968 | See Source »

...returns to its guerrilla nature, many experts feel that continued American escalation will inevitably lead to the use of nukes...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Bring on the Nukes | 2/29/1968 | See Source »

Ruefully admitting that his soldiers "are not doing so well" against the guerrillas, he ordered reinforcements sent to the besieged province. >In Thailand, where a Communist insurgency is raging in the northeast, new trouble came from rebel Meo tribes men in the remote hills of northwest ern Nan province. Though only 100 to 200 strong, the Communist-led tribesmen have consistently bushwacked government patrols, killing more than 30 men. Last week in nearby Chiang Rai province, another Meo band shot down a government helicopter. The increased guerrilla activity may provide the power holder in Thailand's military regime, General...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Southeast Asia: A Fishhook Hypothesis? | 2/23/1968 | See Source »

...Arabs brought up reinforcements and pounded back, turning great patches of Israeli farm land into rolling seas of flame. Then the Israelis called out their air force. For nearly seven hours, squadrons of jet fighter-bombers dumped rockets, phosphorus bombs and napalm on the East Bank. They destroyed a guerrilla base, damaged several towns, terrorized Arab refugee tent-camps and knocked out gun emplacements as far inland as Irbid, 20 miles away on Jordan's arid central plateau...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Israel Strikes Back | 2/23/1968 | See Source »

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