Word: ambusher
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...stormy Clock (see cut) time, tide and the implied threat of shipwreck build together into a powerful unity. At other times he uses a huge winter-stripped, decaying tree to suggest the fact that even the giants of the forest must eventually fall, or paints a rattlesnake coiled in ambush on a mountain slope to "show the precariousness of man's existence...
...political support, Rojas can no longer claim the popular role of hero-peacemaker. The rural war has flared up again, with discontented backlanders increasingly joining guerrilla bands. In Tolima department last month, troops reportedly rounded up several hundred villagers in an area where several soldiers had been shot from ambush, and as a ruthless gesture of reprisal killed 80 or more of the prisoners. Rojas himself disclosed recently that the official war-death count for January...
...Wish." From the first ambush, the Israeli army and police played a grisly game of hide-and-seek with the infiltrators. Clues were stiffening bodies, blown-up irrigation pipes, wrecked rail lines, burnt-out cars and trucks-a trail of death running between the fields of ripening corn, blossom-scented orange groves, drying creek beds and shifting dunes, to the shallow trench that divides Israel from the refugee-jammed Gaza strip. The Israelis killed eleven, captured four. One patrol stalked a returning assassin team for 18 hours, killed all five "self-sacrificers" as they hid in a clump of trees...
...trucks loaded with French recruits rumbled through a narrow pass in the Nemencha Mountains near the Tunisian border. In this ideal ambush terrain, a murderous hail of bullets burst from the cliffs above them. Two officers and 21 men were killed. The survivors jumped down, sought cover and fought back. Four hours later helicopters thrashed overhead. Each disgorged five men as reinforcements, picked up the wounded, flew off to return with a new load. For five days last week the battle raged as French troops and paratroopers tried to root the rebels out of caves in the cliffs. At battle...
...staff of "topnotchers" and decorated veterans from the little magazine wars ("You did publish Holloway's first stuff in Spectra, didn't you?"). There is Tom's cousin George, a would-be painter turned psychoanalyst, and George's wife, whose mind is an ambush out of which Freud continually jumps ("Can't the Cross be a phallic symbol?"). All the "malefactors" are somewhat mystified by one of their hellcat playmates from the old Paris days, who has dropped their cultish enthusiasms, become a Roman Catholic, and is running a kind of cooperative flophouse hostel...