Word: hit-and-run
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...pressures of consent to the U.S. plan. Syria, Iraq and Algeria refused to follow Egypt's President Nasser and the other Arab nations in giving diplomacy a try. The Palestine guerrilla movement, accustomed to warring with Lebanon and Jordan over its freedom to make rocket and hit-and-run attacks on Israel, suddenly found itself at odds with Patron Nasser as well. In Amman, 3,000 guerrillas marched through the streets waving guns and shouting "Nasser, Traitor!" For all sides, the possibility, however remote, of abandoning conflict as a way of life seemed as unsettling as shedding a painful...
South Vietnamese units, which are charged with guarding Route 1, together with Cambodian troops, managed periodically to pry open enemy roadblocks on some of the routes. But the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops, using their familiar hit-and-run tactics, often closed them down again a few miles away. Most residents of Phnom-Penh unconcernedly continue their daily lives at the normal slow and smiling pace. They are intrigued by all the newly visible artifacts of war, and many have taken to wearing pieces of military gear-anything from Red Chinese garrison caps to American cartridge belts...
Constitutional Cleansing. The administrators took a particularly hard line on so-called "street people"-non-students who help stir things up. Morris urged the legislators to find a constitutional way "to cleanse ourselves of them." President David D. Henry of the University of Illinois cited the "guerrilla hit-and-run tactics-bombing, arson and vandalism-of dedicated destroyers." He deplored the "delay between arrest and trial" of such activists, who usually are "free on bail and tend to remain in the area and participate in continuing events...
...crudest blows in recent months have been falling on civilians. Israeli jets accidentally bombed an Egyptian industrial plant at Abu Zabal in February, killing 80 workers. Two months later, 30 Egyptian children died when Israeli planes hit a building at Bahr el Bakr that they believed to be a military installation. On Israel's Lebanese frontier, hit-and-run raids by Arab guerrillas have killed eight Israelis and wounded 30 in recent weeks, most of them civilians. Two weeks ago, in an effort to silence such attacks, Israeli jets and armor swept into Lebanon on a 34-hour punitive...
...Internally, the University has no policy with regard to drugs," May said. "We deal with each case individually as it comes before the Administrative Board." According to May, drug problems are treated as are other cases, such as shop-lifting or hit-and-run driving incidents, which come under the University's in loco parentis policy...