Word: ambusher
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...northeast of Gauhati. There, Lalung tribesmen wielding machetes, bamboo spears and poisoned arrows massacred more than 1,000 Muslim Bengalis. The warriors swarmed through 17 villages along a stretch of the Brahmaputra River. They herded all those who were unable to flee, mostly women and children, toward a larger ambush party waiting by the river, where the Bengalis were brutally slaughtered. In one village, the bodies of children were arranged in two rows in the sunbaked rice fields while survivors dug mass graves in which to bury them...
...Cheyenne, Wyo., and one that area residents will long remember. When Richard C. Jahnke, 38, an IRS senior agent, stepped out of his blue Volkswagen to open the garage door of his $125,000 red brick home on Cowpoke Road one evening last month, he walked into an ambush of shotgun slugs. He died instantly, and the attacker swiftly fled with an accomplice through a bedroom window. But when, within twelve hours, police arrested the two alleged murderers, the reaction was shock more than relief. Charged with the crime were Jahnke's children, Richard, 16, and Deborah...
...disgruntled by the Sandinistas' attempts to force them into communal farming; as a result, many of the 1,500 F.D.N. troops operating in the north-central section of Nicaragua are peasant farmers. Once recruited, they undergo a five-week CIA training course in Honduras. The instruction emphasizes ambush maneuvers but also includes marksmanship, compass work and radio operations. The campesinos return to Nicaragua in groups of 40 (including both men and women) under the supervision of five former Guardsmen...
Last Stands takes its title from Custer's misadventure in 1876. The author watches old age ambush the adults around him. His grandmother loses interest in living. Her husband leaves her and enters an old soldiers home in Washington. Hilary's father suffers a physical breakdown in New York City; the newspapers make much of the once famous poet's nearly starving to death in a residential hotel. His mother, now launched on a teaching career, rescues her estranged husband from his solitude and takes in her vegetating mother from Kansas City. "Well, what...
...district unto itself. With unemployment at 8.3%, higher than in Frost Belt states like Massachusetts and New Hampshire, Texans were feeling the brunt of a national economic downturn for the first time in more than two decades. Democrats came out in droves to help Populist Attorney General Mark White ambush Republican Governor Bill Clements. White roused the voters not only over the economy but also with the somewhat spurious charge that the Governor should be held accountable for high utility rates. The Texas G.O.P. took a "shellacking," said the defeated Clements, who was one of Reagan's most loyal boosters...