Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spotty. Despite all this, Thai troops are performing well, and field officers continue to fight the "other war"-that is, gaining village support. Along the Mekong River, army helicopters rain propaganda leaflets on disaffected villages. The government has devised civic ac- tion programs to rebuild damaged hamlets, and anti-guerrilla patrols are often accompanied by doctors who bring free medical care to the hill people. But there remain deep misunderstandings. One deputy chief of a village still labeled "pro-Communist," after having been burned out by Thai police and rebuilt with government aid, told McWhirter: "There was enough left over...
...avoid that, General Saiyud Kherdpol, director of the anti-guerrilla Internal Security Operations Command, has sketched a strategy for winning popular support. In a strikingly frank book, Thailand's Future, published last month, Saiyud concedes that military planners "always look at those who suffer and struggle for justice as Communists." He argues that the government must side with demands for reform in political, economic and administrative structures. Only by doing that, Saiyud feels, can the military undercut the insurgents' appeals and "keep the people from the influence of the enemy...
...intelligence officer's delight. Abu Daoud, who had been captured by the Jordanians after attempting to infiltrate Amman at the head of an Al-Fatah commando team, rambled on for nearly three hours, spilling hitherto unknown details of P.L.O. terrorist plots and the inner workings of the guerrilla organization. Why had Abu Daoud been so candid? Had he been tortured into cooperation? Was he, as the Israelis still suspect, a Jordanian double agent? And why, after his release from prison in Amman, had he not been punished or even liquidated by the comrades whose secrets he had blabbed...
During the long struggle for Angolan independence, Agostinho Neto and his Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (M.P.L.A.) fought a classic campaign of guerrilla warfare against the territory's Portuguese rulers. Neto is now President of Angola, but guerrilla war still goes on-this time directed against his own Marxist government in Luanda. Angola has been admitted into the United Nations as its 146th member-an act of faith in the Neto government that may be slightly premature. The M.P.L.A. forces and the Cuban troops that helped them to win the civil war after the Portuguese pulled...
...overseas. Such decisions are not made lightly. At last week's commitment service, Billy Graham said somberly that today's missionaries, like the New Testament disciples, may suffer ostracism, persecution, even death (an example four weeks ago: three Catholic missionaries in northwest Rhodesia, shot by a nationalist guerrilla...