Word: ambusher
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...production executive grabs the flag while under fire and sprints back to his own lines as Mad Dog Kanew supplies blood-curdling war whoops. Even though they have clinched victory, General Zimmer gives his troops a pep talk before the third game. "We'll stay back and ambush them, get into the car and go home to work. We haven't made any deals yet today, have we?" His men growl with anticipation...
During the Soviet offensive last April, the Afghan rebels combined strategy and weaponry to bloody effect. In one operation, 800 mujahedin, coordinating their attacks by radio, ambushed a fleet of Soviet vehicles traveling along the Salang Road, the main highway between Kabul and the Soviet border. By the following day, little remained of the Soviet procession save smoke, smashed and smoldering trucks, and the body of an Afghan government soldier (left). Four days later, the rebels struck again with a textbook ambush (above and right). They boxed in a Soviet convoy by firing rocket-propelled antitank grenades in front...
...point, the Sandinistas spotted our patrol and waited in ambush for us to link up with another F.D.N. unit. But a scouting patrol discovered the trap, and instead of marching to the rendezvous we stayed put, spending the night on the dirt floor of a farmhouse less than two miles from the ambush site. "Our mission is to protect you journalists," Comandante Alfa says the next day. "But if we had been alone, we would have fallen on them from the rear and sent them running...
...entering the game, was not exactly Jimmy the Greek's pick-of-the-week. In fact, considering Harvard's performance against Yale on Saturday, when the laxmen allowed the Elis their first Ivy win in five years, there didn't seem to be any chance that the Crimson might ambush the Bruins...
...roads for bombs. Motorized patrols formerly conducted with open Jeeps are more often undertaken with APCs bristling with machine guns. Centurion tanks stripped of their turrets are used as mobile pillboxes. In many places, the concrete walls bordering citrus orchards have been knocked down to reduce the risk of ambush. How can the Israelis work their way out of the quagmire? "We are trying to reduce our presence here to the minimal level," Chief of Staff Levy said last week. Ideally, the Israelis would like the Lebanese government to extend its writ to the south. But the Lebanese army, bogged...