Word: ambusher
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...days later, 15 miles to the east, in the farming village of Veguitas (pop. 8,000), some 200 rebels, reportedly led by Castro himself, overran the village army post, grabbed food, scooped up the money in the post office, then withdrew after laying an ambush that trapped government armored cars rolling to the rescue...
...what Lieut. Servan-Schreiber has to report is dreadful, but men of good will fare almost worse than the corrupt brutalitarians. One officer was so dedicated to winning back the trust of the native population that he founded an Arab-French unit. On patrol, his outfit was betrayed into ambush and he was machine-gunned by one of his own Arabs...
During the six-week assignment, the rebels let them film anything, even offered to stage for them a real ambush with real French victims. "We refused, of course, on moral grounds," Kearns told the TV audience. CBS made up for that gap by opening Algeria Aflame like a bombshell with a memorable year-old sequence of an actual ambush. What emerged from the new footage was a sympathetic closeup of intense, fiery-eyed Algerians who endure their wounded, their bombed-out meshtas, the homelessness of their families, to fight for their cause as tough, well-trained soldiers. Among them...
...prepared ambush along the slum town's dusty main street, the Basuto "Russians" were waiting with jungle knives, needle-sharp iron rods, battle-axes and a few guns. When the Zulus bore down, the Russians tried to corner each one singly. Then, in the horrified words of a local police officer, who witnessed the scene, they would "hack his knee or his Achilles tendon so that he would drop, then slowly, neatly, talking to him all the while and wishing him a pleasant journey to Hell, proceed to pare his head with a knife until he fell dead...
Since the rebels are capable of ripping up a mile or more of track in a single night, the train sometimes has to turn back despite all precautions. And so far, French attempts to ambush the guerrillas a-t work have been generally unsuccessful. Disappointing, too, is the radar system which the French set up to catch the guerrillas' movements. "The echo is fine against the rebels," said a French officer last week. "Unfortunately, it works just as well against goats and gazelles...