Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before he could come close to his goal, some 10,000 Communist terrorists had to be subdued in a bitter guerrilla war that had begun nine years before the British moved out. But since then, the country has made solid economic progress. Per capita income has grown 4% annually, until today it stands at $313 -one of Asia's highest. Every year 18% of the national product has been plowed back into investments, much of it in the villages in an impressive rural-development program headed by the Tunku's friend, Deputy Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak...
Toward Waterloo. Ironically, says Halle, Stalin himself felt that Russia was overextended after the fait accompli that gave Moscow control over Eastern Europe. He also argued vehemently against the Yugoslavian-backed attempt to communize Greece by guerrilla warfare. Stalin asked the Yugoslavs: "Do you think that Great Britain and the U.S. - the U.S., the most powerful state in the world - will permit you to break their line of communication in the Mediterranean? Nonsense." Stalin was right: the Truman Doctrine grew out of that struggle, and Stalin's successors could never expand their empire...
Debray, who had been with the guerrillas for several weeks, claimed that he was on an assignment for a Mexican magazine. He had been in Bolivia twice before on lecture tours, was well known as a confidant of Fidel Castro and the author of a new handbook on guerrilla warfare, Revolution in the Revolution...
Dragging Toward 30. The Bolivian government and most of the press obviously believe Debray is guilty-if not of actual murder, at least of training and inflaming a guerrilla movement that seems to be spreading with alarming speed. Since the beginning of the year, when the terrorists first appeared, more than 40 persons have been killed in ambushes and raids; the army has declared a 1,300-sq,-mi. area in eastern Bolivia a "war zone." Holding Debray responsible, his military jailers last month went so far as to trot him be fore a press conference dressed in the striped...
From his cell, Debray denies all charges of active involvement, although he admits that as "an intellectual revolutionary" and a "neo-Marxist" he is "morally committed to the guerrilla cause." His trial, long delayed while the military gathered evidence, is now scheduled to begin early in September. It may drag on throughout the fall, but Debray says he already knows what the outcome will be: "I believe they will give me the maximum-30 years...