Word: decoying
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...Grenonillage (roughly, leapfrogging), to kill off the rebel bands. Decoy patrols are sent out into the hills to act as moving targets, inviting attack. Supporting them are teams of helicopters scattered in impromptu bases. When an attack comes, the patrol radios to the base. In a typical grenouillage operation last week, a call came in to Lieut. Colonel Marcel Bigeard, established in a burned-out farmhouse south of Bone. Within minutes, Bigeard had seven helicopters loaded up; he took off, returned with 15 captured rebels, three mortars and 60 rifles...
After many similar experiments, Hall decided that the squid's standard operating procedure is to turn as dark-colored as possible just before a pursuing enemy catches up with it. Then it ejects as a decoy a blob of inky water about as big as itself. Simultaneously, it turns light-colored and takes evasive action, pretending to be something else. This system fooled Hall, and he believes that it ought to fool the squid's natural enemies...
...Decoy. Wearing the women's uniforms, Steiner and his men surprise four Russian front-line bunker crews, tommy-gun all of their sleepy-eyed occupants, except for one whom they use as a decoy in crossing over to their unbelieving buddies. Steiner is made a sergeant on the spot and gets a furlough, but all he and his men have really won is a brief reprieve, not a full pardon from death. The whole crumbling German front is itself a rearguard desperately parrying Russian advances and encirclements...
...State Department feels that this active acquiescence in the arming of Israel will fool the Arabs, while calming Israeli fears. It is unlikely, however, that the guise will be any more effective than Russia's use of Czech arms. Worse, this attempt to use the French as a decoy represents not only diplomatic ineptitude, but moral cowardice. If we are unwilling to commit ourselves fully to Israeli interests, it is indeed base to attempt to force the French into it. France with her Algerian problem, is as interested in maintaining Moslem goodwill as the United States, and hence is most...
...while the Bishop of Citium intoned, "Cyprus crowns its heroic child, who sacrificed his life, with laurel leaves of admiration and myrtle leaves of grief." By British order, the funeral procession was limited to 50 mourners. Cypriots got around that restriction by having a band of "mourners" follow a decoy hearse down Nicosia's main street, thus diverting British police, who sprayed them with tear gas, while hundreds of Cypriots trooped down a back street to the cemetery with the real body...