Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would imperil the rest of Southeast Asia. "No," he replied. "I believe it. I think that the struggle is close enough. China is so large, looms so high just beyond the frontiers, that if South Viet Nam went, it would not only give them an improved geographic position for guerrilla assault on Malaya, but would also give the impression that the wave of the future in Southeast Asia was China and the Communists." As for China, Jack Kennedy described it on Aug. 1, 1963 as a "Stalinist" regime, itching for war and consequently "menacing...
...budget was $10 billion above those of the last Eisenhower years because Kennedy was determined to establish his own military strategy-flexible response instead of John Foster Dulles' massive retaliation. Flexible response dictated that the nation must be able to meet any military challenge, whether nuclear, conventional or guerrilla, and it was up to McNamara to provide forces and hardware. Thus, while he was increasing the arsenal of long-range nuclear missiles, he expanded the number of combat Army divisions from eleven to 17, beefed up Special Forces, trebled the helicopter troop-lift component, and increased the number...
Most interesting, though, is Kuanda's reference to "racists all around us." One of the vital decisions made by the Conference was to grant two million dollars out of a three million OAU budget to the waging of guerrilla warfare by freedom movements...
Until now, despite limited success, the freedom fighters had been regarded by racist governments as paper tigers well within the bounds of containment by their security froces. Just as no one paid much attention to the OAU proclamations on other matters, no one considered the beefing up of guerrilla warfare as much of a threat--yet. But it appears that their scorn was slightly premature. In fact Malawi, not one of the racist target states but an Independent black nation, appears to have been one of the first goals of an increasingly organized movement; the success of other OAU pronouncements...
...Integral Part. Faced with the overwhelming evidence against him and depressed over the death of Che, Debray finally changed his story and, in effect, pleaded guilty. "I want to make clear," he told the court, "that this mission of mine to tell people abroad of the aims of the guerrillas is an integral part of revolutionary work. In this sense, I not only affirm but demand that the tribunal consider me morally and politically co-responsible for the acts of my guerrilla comrades." And so it did; Bustos, his Argentine comrade, was sentenced at the same time to 30 years...