Word: ambushes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...following day, with Terry in stable condition, the Irish Republican Army claimed responsibility for the attack. Its grievance was no mystery. Terry had been governor of Gibraltar in 1988 when three I.R.A. guerrillas were shot and killed there in an ambush that was staged by British agents. The I.R.A. members had been spotted parking a car that was mistakenly thought to contain a bomb. London claims that the I.R.A. rebels, who were unarmed, were shot when the agents believed their own lives were at risk...
...degrees to 95 degrees, the troops reassemble for their first nighttime march. A cooling breeze begins to blow across the desert, making the harsh terrain suddenly seem soft and welcoming. The men head for a road 1 1/2 miles away, where they plan to practice digging in for an ambush. There is no talking and no illumination except for starlight. In the darkness the silhouettes ahead could belong to a band of desert nomads. A hundred yards away a herd of camels shuffles by, urged on by its Bedouin master as he gruffly shakes his crop at an American photographer...
...Roman Catholic nuns, Sister Maureen Courtney, 45, of Milwaukee, and Sister Teresa de Jesus Rosales, a Nicaraguan in her early 20s, died last week in a bloody nocturnal ambush 200 miles northeast of Managua, as they drove in a pickup truck from the capital to a church meeting in Puerto Cabezas on the Atlantic Coast. Bishop Paul Schmitz, 46, an American wounded in the attack, . said a rocket-propelled grenade hit the hood of the white Toyota, and "everything just exploded." Automatic-rifle fire pierced the pickup, breaking Schmitz's arm. He and a fourth passenger, Nicaraguan Sister Francesca Colomer...
...denounced as Yanqui imperialism. To make matters worse, U.S. soldiers burst into the residence of the Nicaraguan Ambassador to Panama and searched it for weapons, a blatant violation of diplomatic immunity. Managua retaliated by expelling 20 American diplomats. Still bristling last week, Ortega drew a nasty parallel between the ambush and the November slaying of six Jesuit priests in El Salvador, a crime many believe was committed by the U.S.-backed Salvadoran army...