Word: hit-and-run
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...killers escaped from Norway and arrived without mishap in Tel Aviv, though Norwegian police think they may have been responsible for the hit-and-run death of a 16-year-old boy. Two "trailers," who had provided security for the killers, also made their getaway. But others were caught. Acting on tips, police picked up four of the Israeli conspirators at the Oslo airport; they carried large sums of money as well as false passports. Two others were apprehended in the apartment of an Israeli embassy official in Oslo...
...common: they are faintly pathetic has-beens and never-weres in the film business; each has his or her sordid little secret (homosexuality, alcoholism, an old shoplifting charge, etc.); all but one were present the night Clinton's gossip-columnist wife Sheila was killed by a hit-and-run driver outside his Bel Air home and can reasonably be suspected of the crime...
...planes scar the countryside with napalm and fragmentation bombs. Warships and artillery bombard areas suspected of harboring guerrillas. Infantrymen burn huts. As villages and crops are destroyed, hundreds of thousands of citizens are left homeless and hungry. Meanwhile, the guerrillas grow stronger and bolder. Hit-and-run harassment has escalated to well-organized offensives. Last week the army lost 28 men as it broke a week-long siege of a town housing two beleaguered companies of constabulary troops...
...declined, the Protestant organizations have grown larger and bolder. Since December, the "sectarian" killings that had long seemed to be an expression of random aggression have taken on a more perceptible pattern. Often in the past two months they have involved groups of two or three automobiles making hit-and-run attacks in areas that had been considered safe. A few days before the Protestant strike, for instance, a car stopped casually near a spot where a group of Catholics were engaged in a Sunday afternoon hurling match, the Gaelic version of hockey. Suddenly the men in the car sprayed...
...most responsible rebel leader. Educated in Lisbon and trained as an agronomist, Cabral founded his Independence Party in 1956, after he became convinced that the Portuguese would never leave Guinea without being pushed. Even so, PAIGC did not turn to violence until the early 1960s, when it initiated hit-and-run attacks from bases in neighboring Guinea and Senegal. "We fight," Cabral once said, "only to persuade Portugal that it is in her interest to reach a political agreement...