Word: ambushed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cease-fire talks between the government of President Corazon Aquino and Communist insurgents, guerrilla warfare has not ceased. In fact, in three separate actions last week, members of the Communist New People's Army / ambushed and killed government soldiers. In the first attack, which occurred near Gumaca, about 90 miles southeast of Manila, guerrillas killed 13 military people. Two days later, eleven soldiers died in an ambush some 230 miles north of Manila. The following day, seven more were killed in a shoot-out in the Aurora province...
...something you want to hide, but are required to disclose, put it in a press release . . . Most journalists find it hard to take seriously what you give them willingly." If your boss appears on 60 Minutes, Schmertz says, he should be as wary of "Harry Reasonable" as of "Mike Ambush." He suggests that the scope of the interview--including what documents the boss may be confronted with --should be talked out in advance. "When a TV journalist wants to interview me," Schmertz writes, "I generally assume the story he's working on is hostile to me or my company...
Meanwhile, police engaged last week in a shoot-out with black militants on a road outside Cape Town. Officials said security officers mounted an ambush after informers told them that the men were A.N.C. guerrillas who planned to attack the police station in Guguletu, a black township near Cape Town. Seven A.N.C. militants were killed, but their presence near South Africa's southernmost city, far from the northern border area where the A.N.C. has been most active, is evidence that the group's 24-year-old insurgency campaign has become more aggressive. Indeed, sporadic bursts of violence erupted throughout...
...fire," says an Aquino aide. "We would offer them a business deal." If last week's actions are any indication, that may not be sufficiently enticing. N.P.A. units, which had been relatively quiet during the presidential campaign, were back on the offensive. Fifteen policemen were killed in a rebel ambush in Albay province...
...percent unemployment and absolutely no welfare, not even unemployment or health insurance. Food is shared communally to fend off starvation. The military does not dare enter the barrios, which are almost in a state of civil war. The slumdwellers have organized themselves and send out groups to ambush patrolling soldiers. But the poor have nothing, neither food nor guns, only their rage and their stones...