Word: ambushings
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...however, foresaw Democratic opportunity. Looking over the Republican agenda last fall, Stephanopoulos, economic adviser Gene Sperling and First Lady Hillary Clinton predicted that the G.O.P. would become vulnerable when the time came to make the painful choices necessary to balance the federal budget by 2002. And they laid an ambush line down at Medicare, the $176 billion health-care program for the elderly that is among the budget's most politically sensitive items...
...trial, of 475 Mafia conspirators, which began in Palermo on Feb. 16, 1986, and ended 22 months later with the conviction of 344 defendants. Both prosecutors eventually paid for their integrity and grit. In May 1992 Falcone and his wife, while on their way to visit his mother, were ambushed and mortally wounded by the Mafia's "men of honor" on a road near Palermo. Two months later, Borsellino and five of his bodyguards died in a similar ambush...
...Washington. The only certainty is that the Americans made very easy targets. Unlike U.S.-owned vehicles in other trouble spots around the globe, the van did not have armor plating or bulletproof glass, it appeared to follow the same route every morning, and the driver was not trained in ambush-escape techniques. "These folks didn't need to die like this," says Larry Johnson, a former State Department counterterrorism official who now heads a security consulting firm. "This was avoidable...
...empty central boulevard of Grozny. Our mission: to break through to the Samara motorized rifle regiment pinned down in front of the presidential palace during the Russian assault on the Chechen capital. We never made it. The way ahead was blocked by the wreckage of gutted Russian tanks. An ambush? I closed my eyes as I had often done as a child at the dentist's office, hoping that if my time was up, death would come quickly. We managed to break out of the trap, but the Samara regiment was lost...
...opening arguments and sent Judge Lance Ito scurrying to his chambers to sort things out. The disruption occurred when prosecutors accused defense attorneys of telling the jury about witnesses and witness statements they had not disclosed to prosecutors, a possible violation of California law. ``Appalling,'' ``disgusting,'' and ``trial by ambush,'' charged the prosecution. Nonsense, countered Simpson's attorneys, admitting to a few inadvertent mistakes and blasting the prosecution for baldly trying to ``shut up'' the defense. Before the halt, both sides had received generally high marks from observers for the persuasiveness of their opening statements...