Word: ambushes
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...Ponto last July and of kidnaped Industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer last October. Peter Boock, 26, and Sieglinde Hofmann, 33, are also suspects in the killings. Rolf Clemens Wagner, 33, was on the wanted list not only for participating in the Ponto and Schleyer atrocities, but also for the 1977 ambush murder of West German Prosecutor Siegfried Buback...
...Novelist James Carroll shapes it Brady wages his war against the fates over a vast and richly colored terrain, ranging rom the Irish rebellion of the early 1920s to the Kennedy era of the '60s. Brady plunges into the rebellion: he captains a bloody ambush and emerges as hero and cherished aide to the historical patriot Michael Collins, whose negotiating team he accompanies to England. But the resulting treaty triggers civil war at home, and Brady's family, save for infant Micko, is wiped out. Bitterly, Colman and son embark for America...
...other times did Mrs. Moro's reserve desert her. On the morning of her husband's kidnaping, she rushed to the ambush spot, knelt by the bodies of his murdered guards and prayed. "They were such good boys," she sobbed, calling each by name. But last week, alongside the wooden table at Rome's Institute of Forensic Medicine on which her husband's body lay, thoughtfully showered with fresh carnations, she was composed. She stood dry-eyed, clutching Agnese's hand, while tears streamed down her daughter's cheeks...
...train speeding through the Alps in the movie Avalanche Express. Broadway Joe and Lee Marvin have guns, will travel as U.S. agents delivering a KGB defector (Robert Shaw) to the West. Along the way they are pursued hotly by Maximilian Schell and a band of Russians, who ambush their train and cause, yes, an avalanche to come down on their heads. "I'm about sixth or seventh place in the cast," says Namath. But soon he will get to be No. 1, as the star of his own television series, NBC's Waverly Wonders. Namath's role...
...meantime, Salvan, a Palestinian liaison officer and two French soldiers jumped aboard two Jeeps and raced toward the scene of the earlier ambush. Less than a mile away, they too were attacked...