Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Birth of a Tiger Cat. The rise of Lin Piao to the penultimate rung on the Peking ladder of power is itself the story of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. No one in his native Hupeh province would have expected him to become a guerrilla leader 19 years after he was born in Twisting Dragon Hill, the son of a felt-factory owner. In Manchu China, boys would be soldiers: off to Canton's Whampoa Military Academy went Lin, where he studied under Chiang Kaishek, in the company of such revolutionary notables as Chou...
...leader of the terrorists is a Communist who was once awarded the Order of the British Empire. He is a Malay-born Chinese named Chin Peng. Son of a bicycle dealer who emigrated from China's Fukien province, Chin, 44, made the Crown's honors list for guerrilla resistance against the Japanese in World War II, led the Malay contingent in London's victory parade. But in 1948 he launched Malaya's Red "war of liberation" against Britain's colonial regime, which cost nearly 18,000 dead and required 350,000 Commonwealth troops before...
...troopers and wounded 15 others before escaping without a single loss. It was the first appearance in more than a year of the last of Colombia's big-time bandits, Pedro Antonio Marin, 35, alias Tiro Fijo (Sure Shot), who in recent years has styled himself a Castroite guerrilla. Under former President Guillermo Leon Valencia, Colombia's anti-insurgency troopers won control of four of the country's five Communist redoubts in the high Andes. Colombia's new President, Carlos Lleras Restrepo, called for a maximum army effort to make sure that Sure Shot made...
Then came the U.S. bombings of a village along the vaguely defined Cambodian-South Vietnamese border fort night ago. The U.S. claimed the village was guerrilla-infested and in South Viet Nam. Sihanouk claimed it was peace-loving and in Cambodia, huffily suggested that the U.S. did not recognize that his country had any frontiers at all. With that, Sihanouk last week abruptly passed word that Harriman was no longer welcome. "I am 'Monsieur' Sihanouk, ethnically Cambodian, and do not exist according to the American conception," Snookie sniffed. "Therefore, it is not possible to hold talks with...
British viewers are shocked by scenes of Americans bearing away their own dead; film clips of G.I.s in the jungle remind older West Germans of ruthless Nazi anti-guerrilla tactics in France and Russia, which were not only unsavory but unsuccessful. A current poll shows that 30% of Frenchmen think Lyndon Johnson is more dangerous than Communist China's Mao Tse-tung; 35% of West Germans favor ending the bombing of North Viet Nam. Says West German Vice Chancellor Erich Mende...