Word: ambusher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...North Vietnamese put such relentless pressure on Con Thien and inflicted so many casualties that the American public's confidence in its government's management of the war was badly shaken. In July of that year, two Marine companies ran into an ambush outside Con Thien, suffering 83 dead and 170 wounded. In September, the Communists began a long artillery and ground siege that in one murderous three-week period killed 196 and wounded 1,917 on and around the base...
Remaining loyal to Profaci but keeping as quiet as possible, Colombo escaped from the wars unscathed?but only just. On July 4, 1963, the Gallos planned to ambush him on his way home from the country club where he regularly played golf. Somehow, he got word and took another route...
...limestone capital of Amman was convulsed by civil strife, and King Hussein's Hashemite throne never looked shakier. In three days of bitter street fighting between Hussein's army and the Palestinian guerrillas, 250 people died. The King himself was nearly assassinated in a fedayeen ambush. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the most vigorous of the guerrilla organizations, occupied Amman's two largest hotels and held 77 foreign guests hostage. A truce was arranged in which Hussein made most of the concessions, but it lasted only until September, when the P.F.L.P. hijacked three airliners...
...murders, as well as the ambush and wounding of two other New York City patrolmen only days before, have prompted both thoughtless and thoughtful responses. Edward J. Kiernan, president of the New York Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, advised "every member assigned to a radio car to purchase a shotgun, keep it loaded," and, if need be, "shoot to kill...
...inform Gomaa "that I have accepted his resignation"-despite the fact that the Interior Minister had not submitted a resignation. Sharaf "wept on the telephone," Sadat recalled during his broadcast last week. "I said, 'When I lose confidence in someone, I cannot maneuver or lay an ambush. I am straightforward and always in the open...