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Under Cover Names. The Communists have tried hard to eliminate Gehlen. In a 1953 ambush on a lonely road near Munich, Gehlen escaped death only because his windshield was of bulletproof glass. Attempts to get at his wife and four children have been narrowly frustrated. Gehlen travels under a variety of cover names, and has not been photographed since the war years. Unable to do him bodily harm, the Communists scream that Gehlen is the high priest of a revived Naziism (he never joined the Nazi Party); the current Red line is that Gehlen is plotting the rescue of Mass...
...prominent youth leader, Lieut. Colonel Nguyen Van Bong, drove last week along a highway north of Saigon. His car was riddled and set afire by a fusillade from a Communist ambush. Each month, from 250 to 300 government officials and supporters are brutally murdered by Red guerrillas. "It's like trying to swat mosquitoes," grumbled a soldier. "While you're hitting one, you're being bitten by another...
...Jamaican policemen and rookies of Britain's Royal Hampshire Regiment were sent out to reconnoiter the Red Hills. The soldiers carried rifles, but no bullets (Jamaican law forbids foreign troops to carry live ammunition without special permission). An unarmed patrol of British soldiers ran straight into an ambush laid by Reynold and his Brooklyn buddies, surrendered after the first burst of machine-gun fire. The Ras Tafarians then ordered the tommies to kneel, shot at them from short range. Two were killed, the other two wounded. The guerrillas commandeered a truck and headed deeper into the hills...
...argued that Negroes, too, are members of the public, entitled to equal use of the public beach. The suit was a quick legal response to a protest staged by Negroes on Biloxi's beach in April. Club-wielding whites mauled the Negro bathers; in a nightmare of ambush and reprisal, eight Negroes and two whites were wounded by gunfire...
When he touched down just at daybreak on a highway 15 miles west of Havana last week. Cuban police were waiting in ambush. As Duke gunned the plane to escape, the police riddled it with submachine gunfire and killed...