Word: ambusher
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...course, was the device's military potential. But Genghis Khan as symbol stands for something much larger in the Russian psyche: a force of upheaval that can intrude as suddenly as an arctic gale or a Mongol horde. In the convulsions that wracked Moscow last week, as in the ambush that slaughtered American soldiers in distant Somalia, chaos demonstrated once more that it has long since mastered the long-distance message. Genghis Khan today not only has telephones and satellite-TV links, but uses them to wake up the world at the most inconvenient times. Civilization wishes he would hang...
...What do you think about congressional reaction to the ambush...
...them in black and white, represents the work of 36 photographers from 12 countries, including many whose pictures have appeared in our pages. Chosen as the emblem of the exhibit is a photo of a woman grieving at the funeral of her husband, a Croatian policeman killed in an ambush by Serbs of the Yugoslav National Army forces. It was taken by TIME's Christopher Morris, who has covered the war since its start and has provided some of its most powerful images. After the show closes in New York City on Oct. 2, it will tour the U.S., including...
...flash of violence, warlord Mohammed Aideed launched an ambush on Pakistani peacekeepers, killing 24. His headquarters and followers were soon attacked, but he remained at large and continues to mount operations against U.S. peacekeepers, often singling out Americans. As the violence has mounted, so have the calls for withdrawal...
...staff is predominantly American and the real boss in Somalia is U.N. special representative Jonathan Howe, a retired U.S. Navy admiral. The determination to decapitate Aidid's faction is considered an American interpretation of the U.N. resolution calling for the capture of the Somalis responsible for the ambush of the Pakistanis. A total of 35 peacekeepers have died since May, none of them American. "The U.S. is quick to stir up trouble with air strikes," said a Pakistani peacekeeper, "but it is my men and other Third World soldiers who always draw the tough assignments on the ground...