Word: hit-and-run
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...Cuba crisis, to follow through on U.S. demands for on-site missile inspection and the removal of Russian troops, came as a staggering blow to Miro. The last straw came when the Administration, without advising Miro beforehand, announced an all-out crackdown on the exiles' hit-and-run raids against Cuba...
...forces beat back a violent Viet Cong attack against a network of villages around the city of Quangngai, some 250 miles northeast of Saigon, where the government set up a successful fortified village complex in an area that the Reds had previously controlled. Departing from the usual Communist hit-and-run tactics, a battalion of Reds attacked the hamlets under cover of darkness, drove to the edge of the U.S. military compound in the city with a grenade assault before being driven back. "It took two days for the government forces to stamp out the fire," said one U.S. official...
...Boris. Every basso is his own Boris, and the six who sing it best differ widely in their interpretation of the role. The Metropolitan Opera's Jerome Hines conducted a hit-and-run seminar in psychology some years ago and concluded that Boris was a hysteric and a manic-depressive. Boris' death, Hines has decided, is from cerebral hemorrhage, and he induces it onstage by temple-pounding. Bulgarian Basso Boris Christoff sees the tortured Czar as a man who "dies of his own sin, his own dishonesty-not heart trouble or mental illness." At the Met this season...
...Russians weren't having enough trouble playing nursemaid to Fidel Castro, last week one of their freighters was laced with 20-mm. cannon shells as two boatloads of anti-Castro exiles staged a hit-and-run raid on the north coast Cu ban port of Isabela de Sagua. Havana radio reported that wounded Russian sailors were taken to a hospital, and Moscow's Izvestia railed that "the strings of the whole open plot against the heroic people of Cuba lead either to the CIA or the Pentagon." In Miami, two exile organizations-Alpha 66. an action-minded band...
Rifles & Faith. The fighting is most intense in a 70-mile arc curving around the eastern approaches to San'a. In most areas, the royalists limit themselves to hit-and-run guerrilla raids, but here they are taking and holding ground, attacking steadily and advancing on a wide front. Reports De Carvalho: "The incredible fact is that the Egyptians are losing in Yemen. Ragged, barefoot Yemeni tribesmen, armed only with ancient rifles and faith in Allah, are kicking hell out of Nasser's elite troops despite their overpowering Soviet equipment, overwhelmingly superior firepower, and unchallenged airpower...