Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Osman Bator, 53, anti-Communist Kazakh guerrilla leader, who once declared himself "at war with the Soviet Union," was reported captured in February and accused of being an "armed agent of American imperialism"; by unspecified means of execution; in Urumchi, Sinkiang, China...
...fought in warlords' armies, became a Communist Party member in 1926. After Chiang Kai-shek's bloody 1927 ouster of the Communists from the Kuomintang, Liu made his way to Moscow, where he studied guerrilla tactics and Far Eastern politics at the Red Army Military Academy. When Russian troops entered Manchuria in 1929 in a dispute over the Chinese Eastern Railroad, he went along; his assignment was to recruit Manchurian volunteers for the Soviet forces. A year later, he slipped into the Shanghai underground, then went on to the interior to join the Chinese Red army in Kiangsi...
After V-J day, Liu proved himself an able guerrilla tactician; his troops played an important part in the defeat of the Nationalists in eastern and central China...
...land is worked by present methods, which will take years to change. For example, after land was redistributed in Honan province, the per capita holding was only six-tenths of an acre. Disillusionment over land reform had certainly given rise to much peasant resentment, contributed heavily to guerrilla activity, especially in south China...
...begun, he said, when he was a Marine officer attached to OSS, smuggling arms to Tito's Communists in their guerrilla war against the Nazis. He was "tremendously impressed, deeply affected, by the work the Partisans were doing. I became all steamed up ... There was something churning around in me, and I couldn't handle it." After the war, he decided "to go into this political thing and try to do something to make conditions better in the world." In June 1946, he joined the Communist Party...