Word: ambushed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...least 2,000 townspeople solemnly marched alongside. Their anger, however, was not reserved exclusively for the contras. Insisted Truck Driver Juan Ramón Hernandez, "It's the army's fault. They allow the soldiers to take these civilian buses. The contras know this and so they ambush them and innocent people are killed...
...Janeiro, where luxurious, marble-walled apartment houses with rooftop gardens overlooking Ipanema and Copacabana beaches are flanked by squalid hillside shantytowns, crime is on the rise. Armed robbers often overpower apartment doormen at night and wait to ambush residents returning from evening parties. Bandits jump on buses and force passengers to hand over wedding rings and to empty their wallets and even shoes, where some people hide large bills. The rich are becoming fearful and cautious. At an exclusive dinner in São Paulo given for Antonio Gebauer, a senior vice president with New York's Morgan Guaranty...
...Palestine Liberation Organization reached the crisis stage last week, with the future of Chairman Yasser Arafat in serious jeopardy. All week long, P.L.O. rebels, who consider Arafat's policies too moderate, attacked P.L.O. military positions in and around the Bekaa Valley of eastern Lebanon. In a spectacular ambush, aimed at killing or capturing Arafat himself, the rebels stormed a convoy of twelve P.L.O. vehicles in the western Syrian town of Homs. Arafat, who was safely in Damascus, declared that a dozen of his men had been killed or wounded in the attack. Hours later, the long-smoldering feud between...
...Israeli invasion that was launched with the intention of transforming Lebanon into a friendly neighbor whose soil would never again be used as a base for attacks against Israel, Israeli forces in Lebanon have become bogged down in an increasingly violent war of nerves. Three days after the Chouf ambush, an Israeli convoy was fired upon from a passing car, this time on a main street on the outskirts of East Beirut. Said an Israeli officer in southern Lebanon: "A certain increase of terrorist activities was noticed right after the ratification of the Israeli-Lebanese agreement. Now they shoot...
...bases in the Syrian-controlled part of Lebanon or from hiding places in West Beirut. But a variety of Lebanese groups are also sniping at the Israelis. The Lebanese National Resistance Front, an underground organization composed of leftists sympathetic to the P.L.O., claimed responsibility last week for the Chouf ambush. In the far south, near the Israeli border, pro-Iranian Shi'ite militiamen have carried out repeated attacks against Israeli forces...