Word: regroup
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...commandments is the famous "All hits are flukes," is sanguine about the immediate future. "We won't be surprised," he says, "if CBS and ABC, even by sheer luck or by stepping in it, come up with a Cosby-size hit. In that case, we'll just have to regroup--and for the past three years we've been pretty good at scrambling...
...have adopted new tactics, or, rather, old ones. After a period in which the insurgents fought increasing numbers of pitched battles with the army, they now appear to have reverted to more classic guerrilla methods. When faced with superior firepower, they retreat; when the army moves on, they regroup in their old haunts. Last week, however, the army claimed a major victory over the elusive rebels. A military spokesman contended that one of the country's most important guerrilla commanders, Joachin Villalobos, of the group known as the People's Revolutionary Army, had been shot and perhaps killed in eastern...
Nonetheless, the character of the conflict clearly has changed. For several months now, Thailand, China and the U.S. have been advising the resistance to regroup in small, mobile units that can strike swiftly, rather than relying on static defenses. Said one U.S. official: "The resistance can't fight and win this war from fixed camps. They must become real guerrillas...
Harvard faces the prospect of loss number 17 tonight unless it can regroup and play a superb game against league-leading Brown in Providence...
Unnerved by the concentration of firepower, many of Ampil's 5,000 defenders, all members of the anti-Communist Khmer People's National Liberation Front (K.P.N.L.F.), broke and ran. Some managed to regroup for counterattacks, but eventually most of the lightly armed guerrillas scrambled to safety across the Thai border. Within 36 hours last week, the Vietnamese had mopped up all significant resistance at Ampil, in the process sending small detachments of regular troops across the ill- defined Thai border. At one point, a Vietnamese officer walked up to a Thai army checkpoint to inquire where the frontier was. During...