Word: hit-and-run
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...become accustomed to fights breaking out at Harvard hockey games, but there is something very disgraceful about a fight on a gym court. First, each of the fights has developed into a hit-and-run battle, where a player swings and takes off down the court to hit the next unsuspecting player. Second, unlike hockey, fans have rushed the court to join in the fray...
...Egypt has an estimated 70,000 men stationed along the canal, in addition to 10,000 commandos training for hit-and-run raids. It also has an estimated 1,000 pieces of artillery in the area, including 203-mm. cannon with a 30-mile range, as well as nearly 1,000 tanks and an undetermined number of Frog ground-to-ground missiles. Israel's opposing force is smaller but well equipped, better trained and is dug in along the formidable, 100-mile Bar-Lev Line. Moreover, it is supported by a superior air force...
...ended. Instead, the battle is now between the British army, some 13,500 troops drawn from 20 different regiments, and I.R.A. gunmen. There are only about 500 of the gunmen, but they are well armed with tommy guns, rifles and gelignite, and they hold the initiative with their hit-and-run raids. "It's bloody Dodge City in there," said a corporal of the Green Howards regiment on a midnight patrol at the edge of the Ardoyne district, "full of cowboys wanting to be heroes. They'll shoot at any bloody thing...
...Mukti Bahini captain told me that the Bengali rebels are following the three-stage guerrilla warfare strategy of the Viet Cong, and are now in the first phase of organization and staging hit-and-run attacks. So far the guerrillas in the captain's area of operations have lost about 50 men, and larger army attacks are expected. But the Mukti Bahini plan to mount ambushes and avoid meeting army firepower headon...
...monarchs as Hussein and Saudi Arabia's King Feisal have any say, Habash will not be building anything. The Saudi King is anxious to bring Hussein and the relatively moderate Al-Fatah guerrillas together to negotiate a modus vivendi that will allow the fedayeen to continue their hit-and-run attacks on Israel. The P.F.L.P., however, will be pointedly excluded from any such parley. "We do not care for the Reds of the Popular Front," said a Saudi leader last week...