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...everything from basic physical training to communications to the use of American weapons. Much of the emphasis will be on training the Salvadorans to operate as coordinated units on the squad, platoon and company levels. There will be instruction on day and night troop movements, as well as the ambush and counterambush tactics useful in an anti-guerrilla war. There will be, says a U.S. Army spokesman, "a lot of time in the field, and some very long days...
Still, the children wheedled old battle stories out of the principals. They know the creek bend where a grisly ambush occurred, and the ridge where Jim Vance (a Hatfield inlaw) made a hellbent stand against far too many McCoys. And they think they know who was to blame, though their opinions tend to run along family lines. Robert McCoy, 36, the well-fed and worldly mayor of Matewan, points a finger at the meddlesome Hatfields who invaded the election grounds: "Politics-that was what the whole thing was about. One family meddling in the other's interests." Another McCoy...
West Germany's leftist urban guerrillas ambush a U.S. general
Martin ignored a subpoena to appear before a grand jury on Aug. 11, and then hatched a more outlandish version of what had happened: a black-masked member of "the Guardian Angels of the Underworld" had carried out the ambush to prevent him from exposing the satanic cult. On Aug. 17, Martin ducked another grand jury appearance-for his own safety, he said...
More often, Shales stings his victims with wit. Investigative reporters who pounce on their prey in ambush interviews are practicing "bonzo journalism," said Shales. "Naturally one is reminded of the old story about the dog chasing cars -what do they do if they catch one? Wrestle him to the ground? Drag him off to the hoosegow?" Shales ridiculed Dan Rather's histrionic foray into Afghanistan last year for 60 Minutes, dubbing him "Gunga Dan," and noting that Rather's peasant garb "made him look like an extra out of Dr. Zhivago." Some viewers still cannot tune...