Word: hit-and-run
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...conducted mostly in sporadic, hit-and-run raids by both sides, is focused on the northern area of Ovamboland. This flat bush country near the Angolan border offers SWAPO good cover and a minimum of geographical obstacles. In other sectors, the current rainy season and swollen rivers have slowed down both sides. The rains wash away SWAPO supply routes. At a camp in the Caprivi Strip, one South African company commander complained: "I've got a patrol out there that is cut off by three rivers that flooded last night. I'm going to have to extract them...
...final offensive" began early last week in working-class districts of San Salvador, the capital. As guerrilla bands in the city staged hit-and-run attacks on police and military targets, they issued, over a captured classical music radio station, a tape-recorded appeal for a general strike and a popular insurrection against the junta...
Election-related turmoil in the towns paled next to some of the bloodshed that has ravaged the countryside. In September about 1,000 exiled former members of Idi Amin's army re-entered West Nile province and killed several hundred Ugandan soldiers in hit-and-run attacks. Ugandan reinforcements, and several thousand of the Tanzanian troops who have remained in Uganda since overthrowing Amin 20 months ago, counterattacked. In the clashes, more than 2,000 civilians were butchered. As many as 300,000 others fled into neighboring Zaïre and Sudan. A desperately needed crop of sorghum...
Youngman thinks of his jokes as cartoons. They have the same impact; a simple image and a simple punch. His method is hit-and-run. If a joke flops, it doesn't matter. He's already into the next...
Most of Ulster's Protestants reject unification. Their longstanding distrust of the Catholic South has been intensified by continuing hit-and-run raids across the long, largely open border by Provisional Irish Republican Army (I.R.A.) terrorists based in the Republic. In the border area of Newtownbutler alone, 51 Protestants have been shot by terrorists in the past few years. "It's as bad as Viet Nam here now," said a South Tyrone auto mechanic who had seen two co-workers gunned down by Prove hit men a week earlier. At an angry protest meeting in Newtownbutler last month...