Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...better to shoot Viet Cong with, declared Madame Nhu, who knew only too well the uses that the V.C. were making of their own female stalwarts. One such is Kim Loan, a pistol-packing mama commanding a guerrilla company near Saigon, who occasionally slips into the town of Tan An for a hairdo. Other tools are the thousands of fishwives and fruitsellers in the market places of South Viet Nam's cities. Their vending stalls provide handy platforms for picking up information or passing propaganda and military messages...
...myriad bar girls, also have agents working in most of the U.S. military installations around the country. One knowledgeable observer estimates that at least half of the female help employed at Danang also work for the Viet Cong. Though the V.C. often encourage wives to go along with their guerrilla husbands, few women are actually combatants. An exception was among the Viet Cong dead after last month's bloody battle at Dong Xoai. There lay the body of a girl lieutenant company commander...
...guerrillas, led by a tough young trooper named Vo Nguyen Giap, harassed the Japanese and perfected the tactics of jungle Marxism. When 200,000 Chinese Nationalist troops marched into Viet Nam with French approval at war's end, Giap's guerrillas were ready to continue the struggle. But Ho typically preferred the more subtle tactic of turning ally against ally, and promptly sought to persuade the French to oust the Chinese again. Ho knew that France would be an easier adversary to deal with. Besides, there was the age-old hatred and fear of the Chinese...
...hours later, police began rounding up more than 300 known Communists and extremists belonging to the pro-Communist National Liberation Front. Meanwhile, Belaúnde ordered 100 anti-guerrilla commandos and 500 infantrymen into the central highlands, along with helicopters, Canberra bombers and light artillery...
First Catch. The battle may well be long and tedious. At least three guerrilla bands-200 to 300 men-are operating in the interior. The government claims that they are financed by Cuba and Red China. The bands are led by Luis de la Puente, a wily, pro-Castro attorney who is wanted in Lima for a 1962 murder. By week's end, government troops had already captured one small guerrilla group near Cuzco along with 16 Czech-made submachine guns and three cases of rifles. Belaúnde's government sounded determined to track down the rest...