Word: ambush
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recognize the jurisdiction of the court, Bastien-Thiry agreed to answer questions, "because it is necessary for the French people to know why we have acted and how we have acted.'' His story was fantastic, incredible, and thoroughly French. To begin with, explained Bastien-Thiry, the ambush had not been intended to kill De Gaulle, only to capture him. To this end, the assassins-who were all "crack shots"-had fired at the tires of De Gaulle...
...human, the Colombian, the Christian thing to do is to try to rehabilitate them." But for Sparks last week, rehabilitation came much too late. As he and two companions emerged from the forest near a small town 100 miles west of Bogotá, an army patrol, lying in ambush, shot him dead. The worldly possessions on his body: a rifle, a pistol, two hand grenades and a picture of Cuba's Communist Che Guevara...
...floor of one of the choppers lay the wallet of a dead U.S. adviser-open to a picture of his wife and child. In all, three U.S. advisers-Captain Good, Sergeant William Deal of Mays Landing, N.J., and Specialist 4 Donald Braman of Radcliff, Ky.-were killed in the ambush, and six more wounded. The dead brought to 56 the number of U.S. troops killed so far in South Viet...
Defense Attorney Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour, a foxy ultrarightist who defended S.A.O. Leader Raoul Salan, tried desperately to get the trial postponed. His reason was obvious: the latest S.A.O. ambush,* which almost killed De Gaulle last month, had destroyed any current of sympathy for the defendants...
...midtrial, the government rounded up five of the conspirators who had taken part in the second ambush. At week's end, former Premier Georges Bidault, now reportedly leading the anti-Gaullist underground, was also arrested in Italy and, as is common in such cases, taken to "the frontier of his choice...