Word: hit-and-run
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...battle was the most intense yet in the drawn-out and increasingly bloody conflict. More important, it marked a major new escalation of the fighting (see following story). The guerrillas abandoned their normal hit-and-run tactics and showed a surprising ability to reinforce their hard-held mountain positions. As the fighting developed, José Napoleón Duarte, President of El Salvador's civilian-military government, said the army's goal was "to encircle [the guerrillas] and then tighten the noose up the mountainside...
...Nujoma, leader of the Marxist-oriented South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO), which has U.N. support. The second track has been to persuade Angola to rid itself of some 20,000 Cuban troops. In exchange, Angola would be assured a cease-fire in the hit-and-run war that South Africa has been waging for 15 years against SWAPO guerrillas, who have, in turn, conducted raids inside Namibia...
...precarious existence. It is a strange land to them, and they are among strange people. This tribe of about 280 families--over 1000 people--left their homes in the towering Pamir mountains, to the north in Afghanistan's Wakhan corridor, after Soviet troops invaded in December, 1979. Fighting hit-and-run battles against the better-equipped Russians, they soon had to sell their livestock and slip over the border into Pakistan. Now they want to come to America--possibly Alaska--and settle permanently...
...fifth Rick Monday singled and went to third playing hit-and-run on Pedro Guerrero's single. Guerrero took second on a wild pitch, while Monday held. With the force-play removed, an inning-ending double play on Valenzuela's ground ball was impossible, and Monday raced home...
...article this summer in Esquire magazine, entitled, "The Trouble with Harvard," may have brought the perception of growing unruliness to Bok's attention, some masters indicated. Otherwise a hit-and-run piece, the article apparently drew blood when it charged that, "The only shared values [at Harvard] are sheer survival and self-gratification." The Rev. Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, used the Esquire allegations as a taking-off point in his opening sermon of the year, as he criticized the absence of priorities instilled in today's undergraduates. Henry C. Moses, dean of freshmen, also referred...