Word: ambushings
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...with him the risk to which all Brazilians living under a regime of corruption and terror are subject. Those who resist corruption fall victims of violence . . . The sight of Rubens Vaz lying in the street . . . prevents me from analyzing coldly at this moment the hideous ambush of tonight. But before God I accuse only one man as responsible for this crime. He is the protector of thieves, whose impunity gives them audacity for acts like this one tonight. This man is Getulio Vargas . . . Rubens Vaz died in the war ... of the unarmed against the bandits who constitute the Getulio Vargas...
...hour later Ghioris again went ahead, presumably to scout. This time there was no reassuring sound of stones. Instead, the night burst into flame and thunder as rifles and machine guns blasted into the party from three directions. The shepherd had led them into an ambush. Flares arched overhead while tracers and steel slugs slammed against rocks, whining off into the night. Thomas heard the screams of the women, and once by the light of flares caught a glimpse of moaning clumps on the ground...
Last week, safe in Athens, Thomas heard news from the underground of what had happened to his mother, his sister and the rest of his family. Those who lived through the ambush had been executed...
...Frontenac was afraid to meet the Iroquois ; he sat in his Quebec château and let the colony's outer defenses run down. "[Because of] his weakness and irresoluteness in the face of danger," Eccles says, "no river was safe any more, every portage was a potential ambush...
Consolidation. We moved on towards Thanhne-and promptly ran into a Communist ambush. A Red sniper picked off a Vietnamese sergeant in his tank turret, and the Communists lobbed in some mortars. There was firing all around us: French artillery, tanks and mortars opened up, and small-arms fire clattered back from nearby villages. Red mortars and anti-personnel mines went off, curr-rump, curr-rump, along the road. It was almost certainly one of these mines that killed LIFE Photographer Robert Capa (see PRESS). Moroccan infantry quickly deployed against the villages and put an end to the shooting...