Word: ambusher
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...band of Simbas lay in ambush along the road leading into Poko, a small missionary town in the rebel re doubt of the upper Congo. Through "the jungle telephone," an advancing column of white mercenaries learned of the trap, cut through the bush and entered the town from the rear. As their skirmish line entered Poko, the whites were surprised to see the Simbas rush toward them jubilantly, their right arms raised in the rebel salute and shouting the rebel yell of "Mai Mulele!" It did not take the mercenaries long to realize that the Simbas took them for Russians...
...Paper Ambush. The incident ended a truce between politicians and the royal family imposed by the death of King Paul last March, the Cyprus crisis, and the wedding. The next shot, aimed directly at Queen Mother Frederika, was fired last week from the ambush Athenian politicians typically employ: the rumor columns of the newspapers. A pro-Papandreou newspaper reported it had "learned" from government sources that the widowed Queen Mother had agreed to leave Greece and retire to an estate in Austria in return for a large pension from the government. Other papers quickly joined in to embroider the indelicate...
...rebuttal, Secret Service Chief James J. Rowley testified that an inspection of many blocks of tall buildings is "not practical." But the Commission contends that "an attempt to cover only the most obvious points of possible ambush along the route in Dallas might well have included the Texas School Book Depository Building...
...carrying rockets, machine guns and 1,000 assault troops. Supported by 4,000 infantrymen, Rangers and counterguerrilla squads, the attack force hoped to encircle an estimated 1,500 to 2,000 Viet Cong "main force" troops who two weeks earlier had mauled four government battalions in a carefully executed ambush...
...Athens is a center of activities for one of the most senseless organizations imaginable: the Ku Klux Klan. Sure enough, a little more detective work led them to one James Lackey, 28, an Athens gas station attendant. According to U.S. authorities, Lackey confessed that he was in on the ambush and implicated three fellow Klansmen-Garage Owner Herbert Guest, 37, a short, fat gun fancier; textile Yarn Plucker Cecil Myers, 25, who strutted around Athens toting a pistol; Machinist Joseph Sims, 41, a quick-tempered segregationist who was arrested in March for flourishing a pistol during a Negro demonstration...