Word: ambusher
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...front's 3,000 combatants have the run of the Eritrean countryside but do not control it. Says an Ethiopian division commander, Brigadier General Merid Bayene: "They are trained to ambush, but they can't stand and fight for more than two minutes in one spot...
...other action, one American was killed and another wounded in an ambush of a U.S. military convoy on Highway 20 in the central highlands of South Vietnam...
...calls "action models." He suggests that kidnaping be used to "exchange or liberate imprisoned revolutionary comrades," and that the victims range from "a notorious and dangerous enemy of the revolutionary movement" to artists and sports figures whose abduction may be "a useful form of propaganda." In a section headed "Ambush," he notes that the principal object is "to capture the enemy's arms and punish him with death." In "Sabotage," he observes that "a little sand, a trickle of any kind of combustible, a poor lubrication, a screw removed, a short circuit," can all go a long way. Under...
Marighella did not live long enough to see many of his ideas put into practice. Last year, after his followers kidnaped U.S. Ambassador C. Burke Elbrick, Brazilian police set up an elaborate ambush for Marighella. Two Dominican priests who had harbored Marighella on numerous occasions were arrested and forced to arrange a meeting with him. When Marighella's trusted bodyguard, Gaúcho, appeared to case the rendezvous site, he saw two couples necking in a Chevrolet, laborers languidly unloading materials at a construction site, bricklayers working on an unfinished building across the street. Gaúcho gave...
...secret arrival of Che and the other Cubans. Then, violating Che's orders, Tania, who was an amateur musicologist and collected tape recordings of Bolivian folk music, went to the hills to live with him. On August 31, 1967, Tania and nine men walked into a Bolivian army ambush. All but one of them were killed. An autopsy showed that...