Word: ambush
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...Egyptian commandos slipped across the Suez Canal, killed four Israelis in an ambush on a patrol, then were cut up by Israeli airplanes. Meanwhile, Egyptian bombers swept over Israeli positions along the canal four times...
Luxury Kills. In an effort called Operation Coccinclle (Ladybird), five companies of legionnaires are sweeping a 4,000-sq.-mi. area near the Sudanese border, looking for rebel bands heading south in search of water. At day's end, Garros set up an ambush around one of the major water routes. The setting sun, red with dust, soon grazed the horizon like a biblical omen in the sky. A few seconds later it was night; there is no twilight in Africa, and darkness comes as unexpectedly as death...
...headlines merely reaffirmed the humanity of the race, which in the space age remains as susceptible to greed and graft and the curse of Cain as it has been since the dawn of time. For the weak, temptation is ever at hand; for the brave, violence waits patiently in ambush. Beyond private sin, however, those who misuse public trust do a special evil. West Virginia and New Jersey seem to justify the theory of democracy that argues not that the people are virtuous enough to rule themselves, but rather that no man is ever virtuous enough to be allowed...
...Draper, 19, was killed in an ambush while leading his squad on a road sweep. King, 21, died less than a week after reaching Viet Nam. Whitmer, 21, was killed on a patrol. West, 19, was shot near Quang Nam while serving with a landing team. Moncayo, 22, was part of an entire platoon wiped out by the enemy near Quang Tri. Garcia, 22, had volunteered to lead an unscheduled patrol in Quang Nam province when he was struck down by a booby trap...
...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...