Word: hit-and-run
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...limited contingent" of 105,000 men still seems far from winning a decisive victory over anti-Communist rebels. Moscow's forces had not previously engaged in combat outside the Soviet bloc since 1945, and from the start they appeared to be unprepared for the mujahedin's hit-and-run guerrilla tactics. In recent months, Soviet military journals have devoted considerable space to the problems of mountain combat, pointing out that Soviet soldiers have not been adequately trained to cope with communication and equipment breakdowns in rugged terrain with fluctuating temperatures...
...fighting force lacking both skill and determination. Last week 4,000 U.S.-trained Salvadoran troops were combing the fields and volcanic mountains of the rich agricultural department of Usulután, seeking to dislodge elusive units of the Marxist-led Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.), whose hit-and-run tactics have virtually crippled the economy of the strategic area. TIME Mexico City Bureau Chief David DeVoss accompanied the government forces and sent this assessment...
...unemployed Boston barber whose body was dropped on a Cambridge sidewalk early Sunday morning by three unidentified men may have been killed by a hit-and-run motorist, authorities speculated yesterday...
Although police said they were not certain that Zona was killed by a motorist, Middlesex County Medical Examiner George Hori, who conducted an autopsy on Zona's body, said "everything points to a hit-and-run. From the injuries we saw, we don't think he was beaten by anybody...
...that the overwhelming majority of their followers are peasants who have become disillusioned by the Sandinista revolution and that only 3% are former members of Somoza's National Guard. But the presence of ex-guardsmen in the F.D.N.'s military command has allowed the Sandinistas A hit-and-run to paint the contras as reactionaries who only want to bring back the dictatorship. Last week, in an effort to improve its image, the F.D.N. named Adolfo Calero Portocarrero, former president of the Nicaraguan Chamber of Commerce, as its president and commander in chief...