Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weeks an uneasy peace had settled on the southern Sudan, aided by Prime Minister Mohammed Mahgoub's offer of amnesty to the rebels struggling for regional independence. The amnesty persuaded only five guerrillas to lay down their arms, and when it expired last week so did the peace. "The rebels are opening fire on our forces at Katari," the government radio suddenly reported. Another guerrilla band attacked a garrison in Equatoria province. To the west, the army opened fire on a "rebel camp" near Wau, reportedly killing...
...most serious in Asia, where Communism-predominantly Chinese Communism-exploits the vast turmoil of social disorder and political-economic discontent. Peking has chosen as its chief weapon "the war of national liberation," an export version of the Chinese Communist revolution, which is based on the theory that through interminable guerrilla war a weaker force can wear out and finally overcome a stronger one. The Chinese work through nominally independent "nationalist" organizations such as the South Vietnamese National Liberation Front. It makes no difference to Peking if such fronts contain many nonCommunists; as in North Viet Nam when the French were...
...months of haggling, "Ho suddenly agreed to a modus vivendi: the Chinese would leave Viet Nam, but there would be no independence. France promised to explore the possibilities. That was hardly what Ho wanted, and Giap's army took to the hills to begin the eight-year guerrilla war." Actually the French had concluded an agreement directly with the Nationalist Chinese that provided for their withdrawal from North Viet Nam. As for the agreement Ho concluded with the French at Hanoi, it clearly stipulated: "The French Government recognizes the Republic of Viet Nam as a free state having...
...taking heavier casualties than the South Vietnamese government troops. Moreover, the Communists presumably know that they cannot achieve real victory until they occupy South Viet Nam's important population centers, and to do that, they must operate as large units. Yet any such move from terrorism and guerrilla warfare would render them vulnerable to superior American and South Vietnamese firepower...
...Communist press of late has been proudly recounting the life story of 45-year-old Nguyen Thi Dinh, who has been a guerrilla since 1940, now has risen to the rank of deputy commander as well as member of the National Liberation Front presidium. Nguyen Thi Dinh got her Communist apprenticeship in the V.C.'s Women's Liberation Association, which functions in thousands of South Vietnamese villages. The W.L.A. is a kind of Viet Cong ladies' aid: besides nagging government officials, the ladies write letters to boys drafted into the South Vietnamese army urging them to defect...