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...former second in command, and "General Katanga." Field Marshal Russia also replied-but in a taunting letter sent not to General China but to British District Officer John Candler. "Soon you die," the note said. Shortly afterwards, Candler drove into the forest and ran smack into Russia's ambush. His body was buried this week in Nairobi's cemetery, but without a head. Kimathi's men kept that as a trophy of the battle...
Rice & Men. Though the Navarre program will take time-two years, perhaps longer-before something resembling victory comes in Indo-China, the general and his team have already given a taste of some of its potentialities. With a crisp stream of orders for reconnaissance, forays, ambush raids and harassing attacks, Navarre this summer broke the usual pattern of the monsoon, when the French in the past stopped fighting in order to build up supplies and strengthen their outposts, and the Reds sortied into villages to terrorize, recruit men and collect the rice on which they live...
...Ambush for the Hunter, by F. L. Green. Communist spies, British counterspies and muted heartbreak in a British middle-class marriage, all adding up to rattling good suspense (TIME...
...Ambush for the Hunter, by F. L. Green. Communist spies. British counterspies and muted heartbreak in a British middle-class marriage, all adding up to rattling good suspense (TIME...
...went to the help of a wounded man; how he lost touch with his aide; how he fell down a cliff while looking for water. For 35 days he wandered, dazed and hungry, begging food at farmhouses. Finally he was betrayed by a South Korean who led him into ambush...