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Word: ambushing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRORISTS: A Big Catch in Zagreb | 6/12/1978 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: A Death in the Family | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 22, 1978 | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Perils of Peace Keeping | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

...efforts to capture them. At week's end, even as the trial of 15 Red Brigades defendants continued in Turin, a leading industrialist in Genoa was wounded by two gunmen on his way to work. A man saying he was from the Red Brigades claimed responsibility for the ambush in a phone call to a newspaper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: A Further Plea | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

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