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...mobility simply to sit and survive . . . The fighting which resulted seemed like a deadly form of shadow boxing." Marshall gives a harrowing example: eight 7th Division newcomers went out on patrol one warm night, expecting "no sweat"; all eight were later found dead in a circle, shot in ambush by a foe so close that some victims bore powder burns. Says Marshall: "You can't beat Davy Crockett with a Boy Scout." But many of the "Boy Scouts" fought the foe to a draw...
With Israel absent, the commission went about censuring Israel's reprisal raid on Husan, in which 37 Arabs died, as a "planned and unprovoked aggression." The same day five Israelis were killed in a truck ambush near the Jordan border. This time the Israelis pointedly refrained from asking the U.N. to look into the shooting, said they would investigate it themselves...
...predates Suez-and probably will outlive it-shooting broke out again last week across Israel's borders. Late one morning Jordan National Guardsmen jumped 30 Israeli troops carrying out a map-reading exercise on the Hebron border and killed six. Next night an Israeli raiding party laid an ambush for probable reinforcements, then blew up a police fort on the Jordan side, killing twelve. Seven more Jordanians died when the Land Rovers in which they were hurrying to the scene drove into the Israeli ambush...
...Ambush Nobody paid any attention last July when Congress routinely passed Public Law 887, entitled "Wyandotte Tribe Termination of Federal Supervision." But last week Kansas' Senators and Representatives discovered they should have been listening to the rustling in the woods. Public Law 887 gives the Wyandotte Indian tribe of northeastern Oklahoma full title to two valuable acres of land in the heart of downtown Kansas City, Kans., estimated variously to be worth as much...
...Oklahoma. However, the Wyandottes insist they never did convey title to the cemetery to anybody. For more than 60 years they have been seeking to regain possession, but each attempt was blocked by Kansas' Representatives in Washington. Finally, this year, the tribe employed an old-fashioned tactic: ambush. Public Law 887 was presented to Congress as an Interior Department bill, and the Interior Department unwittingly neglected to tell any of Kansas' Senators or Representatives about it. Last week, while Kansas Citians raged and Kansas' red-faced Congressmen fired off telegrams to Washington, Lawrence Zane, a custodian...