Word: ambusher
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Rather's aggressive interrogation of Bush was an ambush that backfired. But the Bush people had planned a sally of their own: the Vice President was eager to launch a crowd-pleasing counterattack on live television. Within days, however, there were signs that Bush's strategy might also boomerang. Once the applause ended, Bush's testy rebuttals to Rather raised nagging qualms about his dubious involvement in the most misguided and sordid policy of the Reagan Administration...
...Principal McKenna's Washington Preparatory High in Los Angeles just two weeks ago, three female students, about to cross the street to enter the schoolyard, were wounded in the sudden cross fire of a gang ambush. Says McKenna: "I personally buried six young men last year who had gone to this school, and I do the same thing year after year...
Robertson's now proven ability to ambush conventional candidates still does not make him a serious contender for the nomination. Even Paul Weyrich, a conservative strategist with whom he is ideologically compatible, thinks the most Robertson can achieve is a "realistic shot at determining the outcome" by controlling a pivotal delegate bloc. Robertson runs poorly in national surveys, fifth out of six candidates in a September TIME poll...
...more tangible ways. In the northern city of Baguio, 600 cadets at the Philippine Military Academy staged a three-day hunger strike in sympathy with Honasan. The N.P.A., declaring its intention to take advantage of the confusion caused by Honasan's revolt, killed 27 police and soldiers in an ambush in two provinces. Though Aquino has called Honasan a coward for abandoning hundreds of his men, his image as a dashing, reform-minded renegade could establish him as a folk hero to rival the President. "That young man should be shot," says David Steinberg, a leading U.S. authority...
...Though he lost a bid for the Senate last month, Dante was warmly received even by people who did not agree with him. After reports surfaced last week that the attackers were dressed in army fatigues, a military spokesman said, "The army is not so stupid as to ambush Buscayno...