Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that it can take, given the international environment while I am eligible for the draft." They proceed to note that the nuclear stalemate makes World War II situations out of the question. The nature of war has changed. The only type of warfare conceivable under present circumstances is in guerrilla or counter-guerrilla intervention, which they say is by nature unjust. If the only possible type of war is the Vietnam form, the reasoning goes, one who objects to that form, for all practical purposes, objects to "war in any form...
...elections: the Pathet Lao boycotted them. His strongest opposition came from the rightist south, where portly Prince Boun Oum-his predecessor as Premier until 1962-was attempting a comeback with the aid of southern army commanders and Deputy Premier Leuam Insisiengmay. Souvanna also faced trouble in the north, where Guerrilla Leader Vang Pao had picked his own candidates, afraid that the military rightists led by General Kouprasith Abhay, Souvanna's chief backer, would become too powerful and attempt to bring his anti-Communist Meo tribesmen under Royal Army control...
...Consider what would happen if we didn't bomb," said Air Force Secretary Brown. "There is no doubt that it would make it a lot easier for them to move anything South." Even more important, the bombing is the American equivalent to Communist guerrilla warfare in the South. It is a way for the U.S. to keep the North off balance, to disrupt its transportation and communications networks, and to remind it constantly that it is engaged in a war of aggression it will not be allowed...
...same time, Leoni ordered the army's elite anti-guerrilla units to sweep the countryside. At the town of San José de Guaribe, 90 miles southeast of Caracas, an army patrol flushed a FALN force and killed a rebel leader known as Comandante Behuma, who only recently has returned from terrorist training in Cuba...
...seriousness of the five-day student strike, even if it had been triggered by nonstudents over the trivial issue of Navy recruiters on campus. Some of these agitators, said Heyns, "are out to destroy the university," while some others "want to control it." "It's a kind of guerrilla warfare," said Governor Pat Brown. "Their whole attitude is conspiratorial. They don't want answers to problems-they just want problems." And in their zeal for "confrontation politics," the young revolutionaries vowed to fight again...