Word: vitsi
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Dates: during 1948-1948
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...Greek army's victory in the Grammos Mountains, it looked as though the guerrilla power was broken and that only a mopping-up process lay ahead. This month, re-equipped by Greece's Communist neighbors, the guerrillas made a startling comeback by attacking government positions in the Vitsi Mountains (TIME, Oct. 11). The Greek army, which had heroically sustained casualties up to 13% in the Grammos operation, had little appetite for the Vitsi campaign. The guerrillas had a fresh, seemingly unlimited supply of land mines which they were using to the full; World War II veterans know what...
...guerrillas were back. Barely a month after the Greek army's victory in the Grammos Mountains (TIME, Aug. 30), 6,000 of Markos Vafiades' Communists had filtered back into the Vitsi Mountains, 40 miles to the northeast, and were threatening the government base at Kastoria...
...Vitsi battle began shaping up just before the Grammos fight ended. At that time there were only 800 guerrillas in Vitsi. Now, 5,000 more, who escaped from Grammos into Albania, have joined them...
...still with Greece at heart, I proposed to let her escape to follow Ypsilantis and report to me what he did. She went to Albania and sent me a message that Ypsilantis was waiting for 500 soldiers trained in Bulkes, Yugoslavia. Now our intelligence, says Ypsilantis is operating in Vitsi...
Even War Minister George Stratos, who gets publicly furious at any report except "Victory on all fronts," was privately doubtful. Said he with a sigh: "I guess it will be somewhere else after Vitsi-maybe the Grammes again...