Word: ambushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Life for a Death. The police pursue them relentlessly and, during one ambush, Buck's skull is split open by bullets. Blanche, wounded in one eye, turns into a shrill animal, incoherently rending the air with screams. Buck thrashes in agony, like a blind bull pierced with sword thrusts. Pain becomes palpable, and the actors became horribly real as the screen turns as bloody as a slaughterhouse floor...
...could finish the story. He left notes, however, telling briefly what Hornblower would have done. Equipped with Napoleon's official seal (captured by Hornblower from an unsuspecting French brigantine), he would have arranged to deliver Napoleon's fleet to Trafalgar, where Admiral Nelson was waiting in ambush. As far as it goes, this last Hornblower story is, like its eleven predecessors, told with impeccable, salty craftsmanship and a fine, bracing conviction that history needs to be improved...
...Liberal Party candidate for city council in a northern Luzon town was shot to death in an ambush. In Batangas, 60 miles south of Manila, the brother and a bodyguard of the Liberal mayoral candidate were killed in a shoot-out with bodyguards of the incumbent Nacionalista Party mayor. In downtown Manila, an assassin killed a candidate for governor of one of the outlying provinces. In a nightclub near Manila, a gunman severely wounded Jose B. Laurel Jr., son of the wartime puppet President and now Speaker of the Philippine House of Representatives, pumping two .45-cal. slugs into...
...ARVN units are willing to move at night-they fear ambush-and they often recess the war for the weekend while officers whip off to Saigon to see their families or make the bar-hostess rounds. Patrols sometimes play transistor radios on search-and-destroy missions to warn the enemy away. More than one ARVN unit has radioed back to its headquarters that it has taken some key objective when actually it is holed up in a safe spot miles away. And the South Vietnamese are notoriously disrespectful of private property, frequently taking chickens, pigs and other peasant possessions...
...Ambush. Led by Guide and Roberto ("Coco") Peredo, two Bolivian brothers who joined the country's Communist Party and visited Cuba in 1965-66, the guerrillas are armed with automatic weapons, grenades and modern communication equipment. Their field of operation - a 1,300-sq.-mi. area that straddles important oil lands between Santa Cruz and Camiri-is steep and covered with thick, thorny vegetation and huge plants with leaves so sharp that they can slice through clothes and skin. The guerrillas first surfaced in March, when they ambushed and killed seven men on an army patrol. Since then, they...