Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after his talk with the Gimo: "Regardless of the differences of age, these conversations were the most delightful of my life." In Bangkok he made the rounds of banquets and conferences with the Thais, who are fighting Communist harassment on their northern borders and are preparing for a possible guerrilla war of their...
...place where Sukarno's speech (see above) was received with relief was in Malaysia. For the past two years, the Indonesian President has staged a "confrontation" that sought to bring down the federation by economic blockade and guerrilla infiltration. When Singapore seceded from Malaysia early this month (TIME, Aug. 20), Sukarno could have read it as an argument for the success of his hostile policy...
...Military Swarm. At first, the Peruvian government thought that rural police units could handle the Communists. It turned out to be too big a job, and now the army has taken over. The departmental capital of Huancayo, 120 miles east of Lima near the heart of guerrilla activity, swarms with soldiers and military vehicles. On nearby air fields, military transports land with supplies, while helicopters and bomb-laden twin-jet Canberra bombers stand ready for takeoff. In the field some 1,500 soldiers−advised by U.S. anti-guerrilla experts−are committed against the Red terrorists...
...sides who are just aching to have at each other. Added to that is the Castroite 14th-of-June group, which controls almost 2,000 of the 7,000 armed rebels and is busily schooling hundreds of eager, new recruits in the fine art of street fighting, explosives and guerrilla warfare. The school, explained one instructor, is for training "guerrillas who will keep the struggle going in the city even after a political settlement, if necessary...
...quite within grasp. The bitter hatred between the loyalist forces of General Antonio Imbert Barrera and Colonel Francisco Camaaño Deñó's rebels had hardly diminished. The rebels claimed to want a provisional government; yet rebel youths were taking daily training in street fighting and guerrilla warfare-under the leadership of men of the Castroite 14th-of-June group. Last week Loyalist Imbert's radio was howling at the OAS, issuing scare warnings of imminent violence, insisting that his junta was in fact "the provisional government of the Dominican Republic." The OAS countered with pressure...