Word: ambush
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vietnam one reads that many lives are lost through the ambush of patrols. These occur because troops stick to roads and trails-i.c., perhaps one percent of land surface. In Ranger training one learns to navigate the other nineteen percent of territory, by night. The roads and trails of modern university education are its reading lists; the conformity of its scholarship, its ambushes. I would like to give the student intellectual "Ranger training...
There is the frustration of guerrilla warfare in a hostile countryside, where the enemy wears no uniform, strikes from ambush, and where women do fire rifles and a ten-year-old selling pop by day may be a demolition expert by night. Kids in Quang Ngai have been known to profiteer in land mines: they can get 200 piastres from the V.C. for planting one, then disclose its location to the G.I.s for a bigger...
...Harvard graduate was one of four persons killed Wednesday in Communist ambush in Laos...
...only to deepen the Congress split. Desai demanded reinstatement to the Finance Ministry. Mrs. Gandhi refused. Then she proceeded to carry out her proposals herself. At week's end India's 14 largest private banks were nationalized. Stunned by the speed and force of Indira's ambush, the Syndicate made no immediate response. The party bosses may decide not to challenge her on the leadership issue since the party has already twice rejected the austere and inflexible Desai in Indira's favor because he has little voter appeal. But in the event they do, the outcome...
Mystic Murderer. The pattern began to crystallize last summer, when Cleveland police were lured into an ambush led by Fred (Ahmed) Evans, a black mystic. Last month he was sentenced to death for the murder of three policemen and one civilian killed in the gunfight. In recent weeks, there have been shooting incidents involving police and snipers in Cairo, Ill., Portland, Ore., and Sacramento, Calif. Police were attacked by black snipers outside a Detroit church this spring and at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. In Chicago, two white policemen were fired on after another cop shot a black...