Word: skirmishers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proved elusive. Last September, the guerrillas and the Jordanian army fought a ten-day civil war in which 2,000 died. Since then, there have been four major clashes between the fedayeen and King Hussein's soldiers. Each time the guerrillas came off second best; the most recent skirmish two weeks ago cost them 20 men. The fedayeen are also fighting one another, at least with words. George Habash, leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, last week declared coexistence with Jordan impossible and openly called for Hussein's overthrow. Fatah, which seeks harmony with...
...Since our heroic attempt to rescue P.O.W.s outside of Hanoi. I have been puzzled concerning the Government's efforts to publicize the failure. It seems to me that the raid was meant to collapse. If North Vietnamese were present at the detention center, any skirmish would have resulted in a deliberate killing of our men. One can suspect that the raid was a desperate political gamble (a sign of diplomatic decay) to rescue a favorable climate for the Administration...
...constant rain and large puddles on the turf turned the "A" match against the B-School into an uncoordinated shoving match. With the college leading 3-0 in the first half, a minor skirmish resulted in the ejection of one player from each team...
...Cambridge City Council early this morning imposed a 9:30 p. m. 8 a. m. curfew on the Cambridge Common following Saturday night's police-youth skirmish in the Square...
...ended with a swift and resounding victory, their morale soared. But last week, on the third anniversary of the war, their mood was souring into one of gloom and uncertainty, and they were beginning to wonder whether they had really won a war, or merely the opening skirmish of a war. Frontier terrorism, constant clashes on the Suez Canal and anxiety about Soviet intentions have created a profound political and psychological malaise...