Word: ambush
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...President was pushing his luck: in the past eleven months, he has escaped from a gasoline bomb that exploded in flames in front of his car at Pont-sur-Seine, emerged unscathed from a planned ambush at Vesoul, where a six-man "suicide squad" was waiting to kill him with rifles fitted out with telescopic sights. There was even an abortive plot by his enemies to blast him with bazookas on the steps of the Elysée Palace...
Conspirators in Exile. Last week's attempt was planned by former soldiers, said police, pointing to the tactical use of crossfire in the ambush. Unquestionably, it was again the work of the Secret Army Organization, which has assigned nine "suicide squads" to the task of eliminating De Gaulle. Since fleeing from Algeria, S.A.O. gunmen have murdered scores of S.A.O. enemies, and obtained over $1,500,000 in holdups of French banks and post offices. Just minutes before the ambush at Clamart, De Gaulle had presided over an emergency Cabinet meeting called to take steps against S.A.O. terrorism...
...entire perimeter of Angola's breezy seaport capital of Luanda ran an illuminated wire fence. Portuguese patrols checked every car entering and leaving the city. To the north, near the Congolese border, Portuguese army units beat through the 12-ft.-high elephant grass, warily on the watch for ambush; overhead, planes from Portugal's antiquated air force rolled lazily, occasionally dropping firebombs into the impenetrable forests to smoke out the enemies they knew were there...
...will give our lives if we have to for the struggle." Last week Sergeant Gardner, 39, gave his life when he ran into a Viet Cong mortar attack in the jungle 360 miles north of Saigon. Three days later, two U.S. Army officers were killed in a Viet Cong ambush. They brought to six the number of U.S. servicemen killed by the Viet Cong since December...
...William Berzinec of Newark, N.J., and drove to headquarters for a briefing by the camp commander. Vietnamese Colonel Dang Van Son. During the rest of the morning, Harkins saw Vietnamese trainees make a sham attack with blank ammunition on a mock Viet Cong village and then repulse an attempted ambush by "guerrillas." Amid the clatter of machine guns and explosions of "noise" grenades, Harkins commented. "These guys are really good." In one of the final demonstrations, Ranger trainees plummeted down a wire from an 80-ft. tree, screaming "Rangers kill! Rangers kill...