Word: ambusher
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...without an irritating reminder of the F.A.L.N.'s existence. Last week a main gas pipeline into Caracas went up in a blast of flame; a major bridge on the highway 25 miles east of the capital was destroyed by dynamite; and four soldiers were killed in an F.A.L.N. ambush in the eastern mountains. So it has gone for more than a year-a government freighter hijacked, banks robbed, policemen murdered, hotels bombed, the U.S. military mission headquarters in Caracas burned...
GREENWOOD, MISS. FBI agents arrested Byron de la Beckwith, 42, member of a white segregationist Mississippi Citizens Council, in connection with Medgar Evers' ambush slaying (TIME, June 21). J. Edgar Hoover said that the "Golden Hawk" telescope similar to that on the assassin's rifle had been traced to Beckwith, whose fingerprints checked with those on the murder weapon...
Messkirch is thus easy prey for the Nazis. Indifferent for most of the war, he suddenly gets word that his only son, Otto, has been killed in ambush in France. In his anguish, he turns for guidance to the only philosophy he knows-the Nibelungen lore. "Only blood could atone for the blood of my son," he concludes from his primitive reading, and this judgment is confirmed by the Nazis: "The principle of revenge permeated every aspect of our collective struggle in the Third Reich. Vengeance was the reason why our flying bombs thundered over the enemy's territory...
...nasty little undeclared "wars of national liberation." Explains Defense Secretary Robert McNamara: "These wars are often not wars at all. In these conflicts, the force of world Communism operates in the twilight zone between political subversion and quasi-military action. Their military tactics are those of the sniper, the ambush and the raid. Their political tactics are terror, extortion and assassination. We must help the people of threatened nations to resist these tactics...
...that zone, the fighter is unlikely to worry about nomenclature; he is more concerned about how to avoid catching a bullet in the groin from ambush, or a blade in the back...