Word: hit-and-run
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Major Offensive. As the rebel force increased (it now numbers 500 men), Batista tried aerial bombing, strafing, napalm attacks and paratroop drops. They had little effect on Castro's hit-and-run platoons. A fortnight ago the strongman was forced to give up the waiting game and mount a major offensive. Commandeering civilian planes, he airlifted 1,100 men to ominous with no-nonsense orders to go in and get Castro's men. Meanwhile, terrorists in other parts of the country are being dealt with ruthlessly-when they are found. In Havana last week, two unexplained bodies turned...
...Best Defense. In San Francisco, after heisting $180 from a store, Franklin Lindaman told arresting officers he needed the money to defend himself on a hit-and-run charge...
Algeria's rebels, beaten in open combat, decided on a parallel program of their own. They "atomized" their bands and resorted to hit-and-run terrorism-assassination, small-scale ambushes, and intimidation, mostly carried out at night and out of reach of French forces. Last week, the night before the land distribution was to take place at Saint Lucien, a small group of rebels sneaked into town...
...says Smith, "it would make a tremendous difference. I agree with Connie Mack that pitching is 70% of the game. If you have it, you're always in the game. Even if you haven't the power hitting, as we haven't, you can work things like the sacrifice, the stolen base and the hit-and-run...
Conditioned Response. In Greensboro, N.C., a week after he got an eight-month suspended sentence for stealing ex-Mayor Benjamin Cone's Oldsmobile, Ardell Reece was picked up by police, charged with hit-and-run driving, reckless driving, driving without a permit, stealing and wrecking Superior Court Judge L. Richardson Preyer's Chrysler convertible...