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...wouldn't lose his rank." Gargano, then 21, re-enlisted last June. He took part in the Grenada invasion, then was sent to Lebanon. He had been there less than two months when he landed in a helicopter near the temporary U.S. embassy in Beirut. Gunmen, waiting in ambush, opened fire and killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Two Clashing Symbols | 2/6/1984 | See Source »

...American advisers in 1980, close to 10,000 Salvadoran soldiers have been taught combat basics. The reality is less encouraging. At the regional army headquarters in San Vicente, for example, a dozen U.S. advisers must turn recruits into jungle fighters in five weeks. Courses cover marksmanship, explosives and ambush prevention, but the lessons are not easily understood. More than half the enlistees are illiterate, and many of the others can barely write their names...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Central America: Trouble on Two Fronts | 12/12/1983 | See Source »

...companion, Studio Makeup Artist Sandra Marshall, 36; in Hollywood. Dunphy, who is resting comfortably in the hospital, was struck by a bullet in his neck and one in his left arm; Marshall was shot in her right arm. At week's end no motive for the ambush had been discovered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 7, 1983 | 11/7/1983 | See Source »

...home by a Stanton, Cal., officer--who was called by neighbors to check on the child's safety. The child was being left alone in the house for long periods of time (his mother worked evenings). An officer, who says he thought the call was a setup for an ambush, kicked in the door and shot the boy, who was holding a toy pistol. The officer got probation...

Author: By Errol T. Louis, | Title: When the Tough Get Going | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

...Minutes is the foremost practitioner of the ambush interview, and the network's evening news anchor, Dan Rather, a former reporter on the show, has conducted more than a few. So when TV Reporter Steve Wilson of San Francisco got nowhere with repeated requests to question Rather about 60 Minutes' methods for the syndicated Breakaway, he confronted Rather outside CBS News' New York studios. The anchor reacted in the way that people he has ambushed have sometimes wanted to: he turned Wilson down on-camera, using a four-letter word for a sex act. But Wilson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Rather Not | 10/3/1983 | See Source »

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