Word: ambusher
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Rain of Bullets. Squad cars arrived within minutes, and within seconds thereafter became the targets of a well-coordinated ambush. Police, most of them equipped with only the standard .38 revolver, were outgunned. "It was worse than Saipan or Tinian!" exclaimed Detective Robert Bennett, a veteran of both. "They shot at us from every direction imaginable." Three policemen-two patrolmen and a lieutenant-were dead and another 14 wounded within 30 minutes. "We were sucked in," said Detective Gerald Viola. "They were just waiting for us." Three men tried, one by one, to rescue Sergeant Sam Levy, who had been...
Officials in Bangkok habitually argue that Thailand - Communist insurgency problems notwithstanding - is not at all like Viet Nam. Last week Thai Communist guerrillas, who until now have confined their terrorism to ambush and intimidation in the countryside, challenged that notion with the kind of bold attack that has become routine in Viet Nam: a commando raid on an airfield...
...assigned to Indian Territory and left part of his troop to canter back to his wife for "home leave." Two of his men were slaughtered en route. His final error occurred on the Little Big Horn, when Custer led more than 200 men to their deaths in an ambush by Sioux and Cheyenne on June...
...robber soon fall in love; but McQueen trusts no one, and to put Faye to the test he bitterly stages another heist. She counters with an ambush that leads to a surprise ending slightly less suspenseful than the one in the Hansel and Gretel affair...
Even after an allied task force of some 30,000 men eventually relieved Khe Sanh against little Communist resistance, the base continued to come under sporadic artillery fire. Route 9, its supply line to the coast, tied down two Marine battalions on anti-ambush duty. In short, Khe Sanh remained a costly place to defend. U.S. commanders now intend to move the western an chor of U.S. defenses south of the DMZ eleven miles northeastward to Landing Zone Stud, the site from which the relief of Khe Sanh, Operation Pegasus, was launched three months ago. Stud, fairly securely nestled...