Word: ambusher
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...once what a Westerner might easily have missed: there was too much rice for three people. Company was expected, he concluded. Lee and his squad of ten Koreans rounded up the villagers and placed them under guard in three houses. Then his men moved out to set up an ambush. Two hours later, three Viet Cong came to dinner-and died of lead poisoning...
...week before Britain's Queen Elizabeth II was scheduled to dedicate a bridge in Belfast, Northern Ireland, four young Roman Catholics were mercilessly shot down from ambush in yet another example of the bloody, factional feuding that has rived the country for 44 years. The incident could hardly have come at a worse time; despite the deep loyalty of most of the country's 1.5 million people, Elizabeth is the living symbol of oppression to the 500,000 Catholic minority, and officials feared some kind of retaliation. Sure enough, as the royal bubble-top limousine rolled through...
...this context, the Gandhian doctrine of nonviolence espoused by Martin Luther King is in danger of crumbling. Last week James Meredith, the lone wolf whose ambush on Highway 51 persuaded other civil rights leaders to convert his solitary stroll into a mass march, declared that Negroes should at least defend themselves. SNCC's Carmichael admitted: "I have never rejected violence"-even though the word nonviolent is enshrined in the name of his organization. Says CORE's Director Floyd McKissick: "The greatest hypocrisy we have is the Statue of Liberty. We ought to break the young lady...
...sticks and booby traps for protective barriers around the village. Teen-age boys manned klaxon alarms. Should they sound at night, the women were taught to gather in the center of the village with flaring pitch torches, while the men held back in the shadows with their guns to ambush Viet Cong intruders. Last March a small Viet Cong propaganda team came, and nearly every villager went to his assigned post. The Reds asked who the leaders were. No one would talk to them, and the baffled and frustrated V.C. organizers withdrew. So, too, has the pacification team, its mission...
Without checking with anyone else in the room, Alford moved the false news. At 4:33, A.P. sent a bulletin to its 8,500 members reporting that Meredith was dead-and 21 minutes later a fuller paragraph went out, repeating that Meredith had been killed from ambush. For a little more than half an hour the blunder stood. Finally Alford asked an Appeal staffer: "You do have Meredith dead, don't you?" And at 5:08, A.P. got off the overdue correction bulletin...