Word: ambushed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rural Chalatenango department, meanwhile, four Dutch television journalists seeking to film rebel encampments were killed, possibly in an army ambush. Their deaths highlighted the perils facing the scores of foreign reporters who have flocked to El Salvador to cover the continued fighting (see PRESS...
...Fort Bragg, N.C., and Fort Benning, Ga. The Pentagon hopes that the course will solve one key weakness of the army: a lack of skilled young leaders to command small units. Says one U.S. military analyst: "The basic Salvadoran unit isn't trained to patrol. It doesn't ambush. It doesn't harass. It doesn't pursue. They've never
...Maldonado campaigners have traveled 8,000 miles and reached more than 200 of Guatemala's 326 villages in a dusty parade of vehicles crawling over the jagged rock and dirt trails that pass for roads in the remote areas. On one occasion, they even foiled an ambush apparently intended for them: after being followed too long by the same cars, they set up a roadblock and surprised their pursuers, discovering an arsenal of weapons and explosives. The men were carrying police identity cards. Such dangers have hardened the Christian Democrats into political missionaries...
...everything from basic physical training to communications to the use of American weapons. Much of the emphasis will be on training the Salvadorans to operate as coordinated units on the squad, platoon and company levels. There will be instruction on day and night troop movements, as well as the ambush and counterambush tactics useful in an anti-guerrilla war. There will be, says a U.S. Army spokesman, "a lot of time in the field, and some very long days...
Still, the children wheedled old battle stories out of the principals. They know the creek bend where a grisly ambush occurred, and the ridge where Jim Vance (a Hatfield inlaw) made a hellbent stand against far too many McCoys. And they think they know who was to blame, though their opinions tend to run along family lines. Robert McCoy, 36, the well-fed and worldly mayor of Matewan, points a finger at the meddlesome Hatfields who invaded the election grounds: "Politics-that was what the whole thing was about. One family meddling in the other's interests." Another McCoy...