Word: ambusher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...incredible late rally, triggered by Crimson freshman Jon Garrity's breakaway goal at 17:29 of the final period, saved Harvard from apparent defeat and robbed the home team of an inspiring early-season ambush of the perennial Eastern power...
...varsity soccer team ran into another away-game ambush yesterday, bowing 5-1 to an Amherst squad that brought an 0-4 record into the contest...
...most intense skirmishing took place in the late 1960s. In 1966, six American soldiers were killed in a North Korean ambush near Panmunjom. In 1968-the year the U.S. warship Pueblo was seized by North Korea while on a reconnaissance mission-there were 760 incidents in the DMZ, including 356 outbreaks of shooting, with a total of 500 deaths on both sides. In the past 2½ years, however, the zone has been relatively quiet. Until last week, there had been no American deaths since November 1974. In the interim, the most serious injury was suffered by Major Darryl Henderson...
...Lebanese military spokesman described the Damur air sortie as an attempt to help ground forces recover army vehicles seized in a Moslem-leftist ambush. Orders for the attack apparently came from the Lebanese army commander, Major General Hanna Saeed, a Maronite Christian. Premier Rashid Karami, a Moslem who is also Minister of Defense, tried to halt the strike when Saeed telephoned him that air action had been ordered. Karami's policy since the civil war has been to try to keep Lebanon's 18,000-member armed forces neutral. He has feared that because the officer corps...
...located near the center of the salient. Crossmaglen's most distinguishing feature is a fire-gutted remnant of the town hall, destroyed by the British after an I.R.A. ambush. Half a block off the main square, whose principal commercial life revolves around ten seedy-looking pubs, is a British army post housing some 110 Royal Fusiliers. The compound is known locally as the Alamo, and for good reason: it is ringed by two-story-high corrugated steel walls, topped by concertina wire and strung over with camouflage netting...