Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nothing Printable. North Korea has certainly done its best to keep its brethren in the South shivering. Late in 1966, Premier Kim II Sung launched a program of guerrilla subversion designed to disrupt the South and humiliate the U.S. at every turn...
...talking about "peaceful" reunification and declared: "We must accomplish the South Korean revolution and unify the fatherland in our generation." To that end, he set up subversion and terrorist schools in North Korea, where some 2,400 commandos are now being trained to infiltrate the South to start a guerrilla war. The results have become apparent in the North's new aggressiveness along the Demilitarized Zone at the 38th parallel. In 1967, there were 566 North Korean infiltration incidents v. only 50 in 1966; 117 exchanges of fire compared with only...
Organized into six groups, each commanded by a North Korean army captain, the assassination team members had trained for two years in guerrilla-warfare tactics, then practiced their assignment for 15 days in a mock-up model of the Blue House erected in their base at Wonsan. Setting out on foot to slip through the snowy DMZ, each of the 31 wore an overcoat, black sneakers and a woollen winter cap and carried 66 lbs. of equipment, including a submachine gun, a pistol, a dagger, eight hand grenades and one antitank grenade...
Civilian Collaborators. Toward the end of 1966, as civic-action teams pushed ahead with new roads and schools in the interior and established the first real rapport with the campesinos, the army was able to launch a major drive against guerrilla strongholds in the Sierra de las Minas in north eastern Guatemala. To aid in the drive, the army also hired and armed local bands of "civilian collaborators" licensed to kill peasants whom they considered guerrillas or "potential" guerrillas. There were those who doubted the wisdom of encouraging such measures in violence-prone Guatemala, but Webber was not among them...
...this year's deficit, Barrientos asked his Congress last month to cut his $13,000-a-year salary by 25%, and executives in the government tin company dutifully followed suit, requesting a 20% pay cut. "I hope other state agencies will do the same," Barrientos says. With the guerrilla war over, he realizes all too well that his temporary honeymoon with the tin miners and students could end any day. "We hope to better the situation of the miners," he says, "because there just are no other resources...