Word: ambush
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TIME Correspondent David Beckwith, who spent two weeks with Polisario guerrillas in the desert, reports that so far the shadowy Sahara war is a standoff. The Moroccans and Mauritanians hold the villages but venture cautiously into the desert for fear of ambush; Polisario fighters as a result roam freely over much of the territory, boastfully but inaccurately declaring it "liberated." The guerrillas, though, have carried the war into both Morocco and Mauritania. Last June Polisario even attempted a mortar attack on the Mauritanian capital of Nouakchott (see map). Although the guerrillas lost 200 men, including Polisario's founder, Mohammed...
...incredible late rally, triggered by Crimson freshman Jon Garrity's breakaway goal at 17:29 of the final period, saved Harvard from apparent defeat and robbed the home team of an inspiring early-season ambush of the perennial Eastern power...
...varsity soccer team ran into another away-game ambush yesterday, bowing 5-1 to an Amherst squad that brought an 0-4 record into the contest...
...most intense skirmishing took place in the late 1960s. In 1966, six American soldiers were killed in a North Korean ambush near Panmunjom. In 1968-the year the U.S. warship Pueblo was seized by North Korea while on a reconnaissance mission-there were 760 incidents in the DMZ, including 356 outbreaks of shooting, with a total of 500 deaths on both sides. In the past 2½ years, however, the zone has been relatively quiet. Until last week, there had been no American deaths since November 1974. In the interim, the most serious injury was suffered by Major Darryl Henderson...
...Lebanese military spokesman described the Damur air sortie as an attempt to help ground forces recover army vehicles seized in a Moslem-leftist ambush. Orders for the attack apparently came from the Lebanese army commander, Major General Hanna Saeed, a Maronite Christian. Premier Rashid Karami, a Moslem who is also Minister of Defense, tried to halt the strike when Saeed telephoned him that air action had been ordered. Karami's policy since the civil war has been to try to keep Lebanon's 18,000-member armed forces neutral. He has feared that because the officer corps...