Word: ambush
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...those areas. Apache helicopters will keep constant watch near U.S. troop units when the fog so common above Bosnian snowbanks lifts enough to permit the choppers to fly. Anti-sniper teams, equipped with heat-detection units and long-range rifles, will be able to defeat any gunman waiting to ambush approaching soldiers...
...Dallas owner Jerry Jones' cutting his own marketing deals, a salary-cap system that pleases nobody and one of his referees' asking a star quarterback for his autograph before a game. An early-season prediction by Minnesota Vikings owner Roger Headrick seems to have come true. Responding to Jones' ambush marketing scheme, Headrick said, "You've got chaos; you've got bedlam; you've got...baseball." But there is one aspect of baseball that Tagliabue would love to have: its antitrust exemption. Major league baseball, in part because of that exemption, hasn't had a franchise move since the Washington...
...foot on Bosnian soil. Most of the rest would be logistical units in Croatia and Italy and afloat in the Adriatic. Much of the 22 weeks would be spent marshaling troops in the region until there is sufficient force to move into the Balkans without undue fear of ambush. Amid widespread attacks and sniping, the withdrawal force could be in Bosnia as long as 10 weeks. If there were no opposition, the time on the ground could be far less...
Bill Noonan hasn't suffered any obvious physical damage to his brain. Yet for more than two decades after his return from Vietnam, he has re-experienced the most terrifying event of his life several times a week as a waking dream. "It was a night ambush," he remembers. "The first seven guys to my right were machine-gunned down. My gas mask was shot right off my hip. That was my first fire fight." Bill knew his flashbacks weren't real-but they seemed so real that it made no difference. "I didn't know what was happening...
Newt Gingrich's office, decorated with bloody Civil War battle scenes, makes an ideal command headquarters. Atop the highest ground in the city, he can survey the entire territory he hopes to conquer-and plot the ambush he says can clinch that victory. By fall, Gingrich predicted in an interview with TIME, the Republican Congress will have passed a raft of bills to implement its seven-year plan to balance the budget and will confront Bill Clinton with an excruciating choice. He will have to sign on to spending cuts that will inflame his Democratic supporters or veto them...