Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...question of how the Communists can be prevented from seizing control of the new South Viet Nam government. U.S. intelligence sources report ominously that captured documents indicate that Hanoi is instructing many of its forces not to disband after the cease-fire but to reorganize as Viet Cong guerrilla-style units and continue terror and harassment tactics...
...There was also plenty of handwriting on the walls. As early as 1954, General Matthew Ridgway had drawn up a report indicating that if the U.S. wanted to follow France into Indochina the price would be between 500,000 and 1,000,000 men tied down to a prolonged guerrilla...
...terms of dramatic impact, the most striking thing that the Communists could do before a settlement is reached would be to launch an attack on Saigon. Guerrilla forces are already operating in small units within 15 miles of the capital, on Highway 1 to the northwest and Highway 13 to the north. Allied intelligence analysts doubt that the Communists are capable of making a major thrust on Saigon, though they concede that attacks by sappers and rocket crews could occur at any time...
...reorganizing Communist political and military activities. His superior was Le Duan, now the head of the party. Of the two, Tho took the harder line on the fight for the South, arguing for an unremitting struggle. Recalled home after the Geneva accords of 1954, Tho continued to supervise guerrilla actions in the South while building his own reputation as one of the best organizational minds in Hanoi. During the 1960s, he prevailed over severe criticism of his Southern strategy, and eventually supervised a "purification of the ranks" during which thousands of his "deviationist" opponents were executed...
Palestinian guerrilla leaders are as edgy as anyone. When George Habash, leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, recently entered Beirut's American University Hospital for treatment of a heart condition, a squad of bodyguards donned hospital white and took up positions near his bed. "All we're trying to do," says a Palestinian fighter who has had one colleague blown up when he started his car and another maimed by an explosive package, "is postpone our own execution...