Word: militiamen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Behind Giap's regulars stand fully half a million militiamen, trained and armed (though often with ancient fowling pieces), bolstered by the "Three Readys Movement"-1,500,000 volunteers who are supposedly "ready to fight, join the army, and go whereever needed." Last week Hanoi took further steps toward full mobilization by ordering 2,500,000 young men and women into the "Brigade of Young Volunteers to Fight U.S. Aggression for National Salvation." As bulky in numbers as it is in name, the brigade will work in fields and factories vacated by militiamen...
...Chief's Children. Beyond the outright murders and kidnapings is the evidence of acts even more grisly. Two years ago, a government force came upon 35 weeping women and children-and the bodies of 30 Vietnamese militiamen, throats cut, bodies disemboweled, and in many cases, emasculated. In Binh Dinh province, the Viet Cong beheaded a village chief and hacked off the arm of the chief's twelve-year-old daughter. They also took the chief's six-year-old son, laid a rifle across his bare back and fired it several times, leaving a twelve-inch scar...
Tight Clutch. Songbe (literally "Little River") was defended by a force of 1,000 Vietnamese Rangers, militiamen and U.S. Special Force advisers. Two days before the assault, the Rangers captured a pair of deserters who reported that a strong Communist force numbering nearly 2,500 men had moved into the area and was preparing an attack. Though the Songbe garrison intensified its guard, it wasn't enough. In the dark beyond midnight, while the sky intermittently flared with lightning, the Reds attacked...
...badly chipped bloc, predictably condemned the U.S. for "barbarous" behavior but issued no call for action. Some 2,000 so-called "students"-mostly Asians-unleashed an unbridled attack on the U.S. Embassy, and the Soviet government obviously was embarrassed at the necessity of calling out 600 cops and 500 militiamen to quell the outburst (see THE WORLD...
...time since June 1918 that a Moscow riot had to be put down by force. The cops let fly with whip and truncheon. Screaming "Fascists!" at the militia, the mob fought back with rocks, bricks and clubs. Slingshots sent missiles whizzing at mounted police, and fists struck out at militiamen on foot...