Word: ambusher
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...favor of less brutal installments. On the West Coast, where next season's shows are already in the works, two It Takes a Thief scripts involving assassination have just been chucked. Alan Armor of CBS's new western, Lancer, has edited out one shooting and one ambush from his premiere show, and the producers of Gunsmoke, Get Smart and The Name of the Game have ordered re-evaluation of all scenarios. Bruce Geller, producer of Mission: Impossible and Mannix, says: "We're going to explore other areas of conflict than violence-conflict of emotion and conflict...
Along the Communist border, North Korea's General Bong Hak Ho has arrayed 180,000 troops, many of whom make regular forays into the South to ambush American and South Korean units; last week they killed two soldiers -one of them an American-and wounded five more. Ho is also training a special force of 2,400 commandos who operate in small teams, slipping across the border for hit-and-run sabotage and terrorism. Watching for them on the southern side are 12,000 U.S. troops of the 2nd Division, who guard the 18.5-mi. American sector...
...months ago, but were made in open defiance of British authority and in disregard of a royal reprieve for the three men. No doubt existed about the guilt of the men, two of whom, James Dhlamini and Victor Mlambo, had murdered a white farmer in a Mau Mau-style ambush and the third of whom, Duly Shadrack, had axed a native chief to death in the bush. But by blatantly ignoring the mercy move of Queen Elizabeth, to whom they still claimed to profess fealty, the leaders of the runaway colony also applied the hangman's noose...
...Black Jack") Pershing; of combat wounds; near Quang Tri, Viet Nam. A Yale graduate who received his Army commission seven months ago, Pershing went to Viet Nam and was leading a patrol in search of a member of his platoon when he was killed in a Viet Cong ambush...
Even if aircraft had been available, however, Washington officials question whether it would have been wise to send them to Pueblo's aid. The hijack was evidently well planned, and it was quite possible that an ambush awaited any rescue force; at Wonsan perched 50 to 100 MIGS, and South Korean intelligence spotted two additional Communist squadrons flying near the DMZ about the time of Pueblo's capture. Further, in towing Pueblo into Wonsan, the Koreans sailed in close formation, which would have made it difficult for a strafing plane to avoid killing Americans. Once in Wonsan...