Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...effective their range of tactics can be. In two cunningly prepared ambushes, they killed 69 Americans in the Central Highlands. In a rocket onslaught on the huge air base at Danang, they killed eight men and did about $80 million worth of damage to U.S. planes. And, in a guerrilla-style raid that they have honed to near perfection, they swarmed over the provincial prison camp in Quang Nam province and released 1,220 prisoners, most of them Viet Cong suspects...
Died. Adolf Johannes de la Rey, 91, South African cattle farmer and provincial politician, who in 1899, as a Boer War guerrilla, captured a British journalist named Winston S. Churchill, a misfortune that Churchill subsequently observed "was to lay the foundations of my later life," when his escape within four weeks made him an instant national hero and prime parliamentary candidate back home; of a stroke; near Johannesburg...
...course, has the resources in firepower and men to defeat any Communist force anywhere in Viet Nam that is willing to stand and fight for any length of time. But, true to Mao's manual of guerrilla warfare, the enemy is fighting for the most part only when he chooses and with a willingness to take heavy losses to undermine U.S. patience in the war. (One North Vietnamese defector along the DMZ claimed that his job was to dig graves for a third of his unit before it went into battle against the Marines...
...ailing economy, strains are visibly sharpening between the two countries, and the two leaders had much to discuss. The basic problem stems from the nature of Castro's Communism. He has never really toed his Marx in the strict ideological and economic sense; at heart, he remains a guerrilla. His chief interest lies in exporting revolution to the rest of Latin America...
...years ago, Russia welcomed Cuba's subversive efforts. No longer. Well aware that Castro's guerrilla wars are getting nowhere, that they are doing more harm than good to Communism's image, Moscow is now trying to achieve a foothold in Latin America through diplomacy and trade expansion (TIME, March 31). Such tactics, Castro claims, only help the "oligarchies" that he is trying to overthrow. To make sure that Moscow gets the point, Castro is planning a Latin America-wide meeting in Havana next month to discuss future strategies for his guerrilla wars of liberation...