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...Bravo, who was responsible for Spain's diplomatic recognition of East Germany and China, and Justice Minister Tomas Garicano Gofti, who evidently fell from favor when he ordered police not to use firearms during this year's May Day demonstrations. One policeman died in ambush, triggering a later protest by Spanish police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Enter the Admiral | 6/18/1973 | See Source »

...Ambush at Hollywood Gulch

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 23, 1973 | 4/23/1973 | See Source »

...Great Spirit, Godfather to all the red men, has spoken. In a well-planned ambush at Hollywood Gulch he tomahawked Oscar, but it was accomplished in a most un-Indian-like maneuver. While Great Chief Brando [April 9] skulked in the surrounding mesquite, he dispatched a young squaw to the paleface council, carrying the war lance. Tonto would have been more courageous than that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 23, 1973 | 4/23/1973 | See Source »

...Nghia province when the Viet Cong grabbed him. The guerrillas, he recalls, turned out to be "almost friendly." As he traveled with them, he noticed that they seemed to know to the minute when the routine of enemy artillery firing would begin and when it would end. After one ambush, Ramsey estimated that they exaggerated the casualties four or five to one in reports to their superiors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: P.O.W.S: The Saintly and the Sadists | 3/12/1973 | See Source »

...silent ambush, that the flowers of the entire world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bouquet of Forget-Me-Nots | 3/8/1973 | See Source »

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