Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strength has not been bought cheaply. For McNamara's buildup, which has given the armed forces the capacity to respond flexibly to guerrilla and conventional warfare as well as to nuclear attack, the defense budget this year will be $7.5 billion higher than the last Eisenhower defense budget...
...depart from the Communist island free and clear after Oct. 10, and 2) make a statement "in a few days" that would clear up the mysterious seven-month disappearance of Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, 37, the Argentine-born Marxist who ranks as Cuba's top theoretician, ace guerrilla fighter and longtime No. 2 to Castro himself...
...trying nothing." The pillars of Cuban Communism appear firmly in place, decaying but hardening into some weird sort of petrified forest. The regime might even survive Castro's death. Yet for the moment at least, .Cuban Communism and subversion seem more or less neutralized. The guerrilla situation in the Hemisphere is troublesome but hardly desperate. Politically, Castro and Cuba have been discredited, both by what they have become and by the force of stronger ideas. The Alliance for Progress is slowly beginning to live up to its name. In half a dozen countries, impressive new leaders are pushing hard...
...wounding civilians-a mission spelled out in some detail by U.S. General William Westmoreland to U.S. forces in Viet Nam last July. "It is imperative that all our officers and men," said Westmoreland, "understand the importance of minimizing noncombatant casualties whenever possible." Easier said than done in a guerrilla war that often makes the innocent the willing or unwilling neighbors of the enemy...
...father's, who was shot dead one evening while brushing his teeth. A brilliant law student who passed his bar exam with the highest grade in the country, Marcos successfully appealed his case to the Supreme Court. During World War II, he led a hard-hitting guerrilla campaign against the Japanese and, at war's end, emerged with 27 U.S. and Filipino medals and citations...