Word: ambushers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Night Ambush. Press solidarity is reinforced by a system of press clubs...
...another mission and could not be recalled. A march on foot to relieve Dak Son would lead through a wild and deep ravine separating the burning hamlet from Song Be. It meant three miles on a tortuous and twisting trail in the darkness-and an almost certain Viet Cong ambush. Dak Son's only outside help during its long night of terror and death was a single C-47 Dragonship that hovered over the hamlet, spraying the surrounding fields with its mini-guns. The grim gunners had no need of flares to spot their targets...
...part of a probing arm of Operation Coronado 9. The Vietnamese troops were in the lead boats, and when rockets began to rip through the flotilla's armor plate, Major Pham Nha, the Vietnamese Marine battalion commander, made an instant decision to counterattack. "We're in an ambush and we are going in," ordered Nha, without waiting for artillery and air support. Seconds later, Nha's troop carriers rammed into the canal bank and his Marines stormed ashore...
...Tigers, whose miserable 7-14 record last year included a 5-4 ambush of Harvard, have begun this season in strong fashion. After a 4-3 overtime loss to Colgate in the season opener, Princeton has buried Army 8-3 and Northeastern...
...escape to the sanctuary of C. W. Moss's home. C. W.'s father puts on a smarmy smile for the couple, but then arranges their execution by trading with the police: his son's life for the couple's death. The police arrange the ambush; and in what may be the most remarkable use of slow motion in cinema history, the bodies of Bonnie and Clyde writhe to earth in a quarter-time choreography of death...