Word: ambusher
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...mysterious unnamed figure who describes how security for the President's visit to Dallas was slackened. It was all part of a plot, he tells Garrison, to eliminate Kennedy and put Lyndon Johnson in office so that the Vietnam War could be escalated. "This was a military-style ambush from start to finish," Garrison tells his staff later, "a coup d'etat with Lyndon waiting in the wings...
...Vietnam, PTSD was often caused by the prolonged stress of trying to survive an ambush or a fire fight. Bill Ralph developed his case riding shotgun on fuel trucks engaged in night resupply missions. For seven of the 18 years he has lived in Hawaii, Ralph occupied an 8-ft. by 12-ft. hilltop shack. If a stranger approached, Ralph would slip into the jungle, his knife at the ready. "I didn't even know I was sick," he says. "I just thought I was a little different...
...Gotti has long been suspected of having arranged the hit so he could take over the family. Police contend that Castellano did not trust Gotti and was grooming Thomas Bilotti, his bodyguard, as the next head of the family. (Bilotti too was killed in the ambush.) While Gotti is not accused of pulling a trigger, investigators say they have a witness who can place him near the shooting scene. The prosecutors are also expected to produce an informer, convicted Philadelphia mobster Philip Leonetti, to testify that Gotti had bragged about setting up Castellano's execution...
...following day, with Terry in stable condition, the Irish Republican Army claimed responsibility for the attack. Its grievance was no mystery. Terry had been governor of Gibraltar in 1988 when three I.R.A. guerrillas were shot and killed there in an ambush that was staged by British agents. The I.R.A. members had been spotted parking a car that was mistakenly thought to contain a bomb. London claims that the I.R.A. rebels, who were unarmed, were shot when the agents believed their own lives were at risk...
...degrees to 95 degrees, the troops reassemble for their first nighttime march. A cooling breeze begins to blow across the desert, making the harsh terrain suddenly seem soft and welcoming. The men head for a road 1 1/2 miles away, where they plan to practice digging in for an ambush. There is no talking and no illumination except for starlight. In the darkness the silhouettes ahead could belong to a band of desert nomads. A hundred yards away a herd of camels shuffles by, urged on by its Bedouin master as he gruffly shakes his crop at an American photographer...