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...they take off to brown-nose the next big shot on the rise," he told Francisco (Pancho) Villa, his more flamboyant and barbaric northern counterpart. Villa later retired from the field with a $250,000 government "grant." Zapata was cut down in an ambush set by men who thought that death was the best cure for incorruptibility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Lost Leader | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

...Fatah's signal, a band of Arabs sets out across the Jordan River on rafts made from tractor tires, carrying their Russian-made Kalashnikov assault rifles in waterproof inner tubes. In the darkness they land, make their way inland, plant a mine, ambush an Israeli patrol or throw a grenade, then scramble as best they can for home. The odds are heavily against their making it back, for many are caught or killed by efficient Israeli security forces. But the rewards are high, as posthumous compensations go. They are martyrs to all Arabs, their photographs and tales of their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GUERRILLA THREAT IN THE MIDDLE EAST | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

Lawrence R. Berger '70 suggested that in the near future SDS members disrupt ROTC drills and ambush cadets with water pistols. But no decision was made on any direct action to be taken against ROTC headquarters...

Author: By Jeffrey D. Blum, | Title: SDS Plans Sit-in at Faculty Meeting | 12/11/1968 | See Source »

...were armed by inadvertence-as when sanitation men, approached by hippies who offered to help clean up Grant Park, innocently gave them sticks with pointed nails to skewer wastepaper. Some of these sticks were later used as weapons. The most severe police injuries seem to have resulted from accidental ambush. At least a dozen assaults occurred when demonstrators, desperately fleeing a line of advancing police, ducked down one street and up another and unexpectedly encountered either a solitary policeman or a lone squad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: CHICAGO EXAMINED: ANATOMY OF A POLICE RIOT' | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

...going to Viet Nam 20 months ago as a civilian with AID, the U.S. foreign-aid agency. He has been nominated for two Purple Hearts for wounds during and since Tet, for the Bronze Star with a V for valor when he rescued four wounded Vietnamese troops from an ambush late in March, and for the South Vietnamese Chuong My medal-the highest a civilian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: Phu Vinh's Irregulars | 11/8/1968 | See Source »

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