Word: ambushes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...empty central boulevard of Grozny. Our mission: to break through to the Samara motorized rifle regiment pinned down in front of the presidential palace during the Russian assault on the Chechen capital. We never made it. The way ahead was blocked by the wreckage of gutted Russian tanks. An ambush? I closed my eyes as I had often done as a child at the dentist's office, hoping that if my time was up, death would come quickly. We managed to break out of the trap, but the Samara regiment was lost...
...opening arguments and sent Judge Lance Ito scurrying to his chambers to sort things out. The disruption occurred when prosecutors accused defense attorneys of telling the jury about witnesses and witness statements they had not disclosed to prosecutors, a possible violation of California law. "Appalling," "disgusting" and "trial by ambush," charged the prosecution. Nonsense, countered Simpson's attorneys, admitting to a few inadvertent mistakes and blasting the prosecution for baldly trying to "shut up" the defense. Before the halt, both sides had received generally high marks from observers for the persuasiveness of their opening statements...
...response, the language was extraordinary, the outrage genuine. ``Disgusting,'' ``appalling,'' ``worse than appalling,'' Clark raged. ``Trial by ambush,'' she charged. Defense lawyer Carl Douglas acknowledged to the court that there were some new witnesses but insisted the mistakes were ``inadvertent'' and pointed out that the prosecution had also been late with some witness names during the hearing on Simpson's past abusive behavior...
...opening arguments and sent Judge Lance Ito scurrying to his chambers to sort things out. The disruption occurred when prosecutors accused defense attorneys of telling the jury about witnesses and witness statements they had not disclosed to prosecutors, a possible violation of California law. ``Appalling,'' ``disgusting,'' and ``trial by ambush,'' charged the prosecution. Nonsense, countered Simpson's attorneys, admitting to a few inadvertent mistakes and blasting the prosecution for baldly trying to ``shut up'' the defense. Before the halt, both sides had received generally high marks from observers for the persuasiveness of their opening statements...
Oliver North was set to appear in a Halloween parade with some local police in Vienna, Virginia, last week when he got word that followers of Lyndon LaRouche, dean of the American political fringe and Virginia resident, might ambush him along the way with a salvo of rotten fruit. "What do we do?" North asked an adviser, Mark Goodin. "Be sure and duck," Goodin replied...