Word: ambusher
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...unsettling as a journalist to be "on the other side of the scrutiny," with television cameras pursuing him. He is having what he calls sober second thoughts: "My appetite for the hard question is diminished. I think, I hope, I'll get it back." Several of the objectionable ambush tactics once used on CBS's 60 Minutes are no longer permitted, but Wallace knows that "some of our viewers are crying for the hard stuff." So he must get back in harness. The process has begun: a few minutes after saying all this in a telephone interview, he calls back...
...assault on Zrariyah was a blow to the resistance movement, it brought little respite for the Israelis. The next day, two Israeli soldiers were killed in an ambush. The same day, a car exploded on a road south of Tyre, killing five Lebanese civilians; the vehicle had apparently been heading for an Israeli outpost or convoy, but blew up prematurely. In Zrariyah, the governor of southern Lebanon, Halim Fayad, issued a warning: "New suicide attacks will be launched. We are ready to avenge this massacre...
...Sandinistas have fought back, especially against the F.D.N., by sending troops to overwhelm rebel strongholds. When the opportunity for an ambush arises, the government dispatches its version of the Green Berets: one of several elite battalions about 600 strong trained in antiguerrilla warfare by North Korean and Vietnamese military advisers in 1983. The Sandinistas have a big edge in modern equipment, like Soviet AK-47 rifles and T-55 tanks. The rebels are nervously waiting for the Sandinistas to deploy their new Hind-D helicopters, which can fly 200 m.p.h. and carry air-to-surface missiles...
...coat appeared in the company of a burly escort. Since Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva, 58, returned to Moscow last month after 17 years in exile in the West, she has been playing hide-and-seek with Western reporters. She reacted in anger to the latest ambush. "I am not going to talk to you, not one word," she snapped. "You have no right. You are uncivilized people. You are savages." When asked about Olga Peters, her 13-year-old American-born daughter, she responded with a string of obscenities...
Midway through the second period, freshman Julie Saner lit the lamp, and before the ambush was over. Karen Carney and Kelly Landry had each shipped in a score to give the stickwomen an insurmountable edge...