Word: sneaking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Asifa's storm troopers have little in common with the illiterate and ill-equipped irregulars who used to sneak into Israel. Roughly half of them are college graduates or students, and all are rotated regularly in and out their civilian jobs, a practice that makes guerrilla fight ing more attractive and assures Asifa penetration into all levels of civilian life. They undergo formal guerrilla train mg at bases such as the Karamah refugee camp, which was the mam target of last week's Israeli assault. To main tain a semblance of secrecy, Asifa is organized into c. like...
...world's leader in aviation." Quite a leader himself, Merrill has an unmatched 40,000 hours at the controls of everything from early Fokkers to the latest DC-8 jets. Retired because of age in 1961, Merrill still flies "everything I can get my hands on. I sneak out pretty near every night with some of the boys and make an instrument approach in a DC-8 or Boeing 727. There's nothing against that, as long as it isn't a scheduled flight...
After Feintuch was interviewed for a Crimson feature this weekend, council president Paul Munyon decided to fire him. Not yet content, Munyon changed the locks at the Bulletin's headquarters lest the erstwhile editor attempt to sneak back...
...Harcourt in the south, Biafrans have kept at bay Nigerian troops, who are 25 miles down the channel on Bonny Island. They have mounted gun batteries and trip-wire mines around the channel to discourage a waterborne assault, even venture out in speedboats for raids on Bonny. Biafran guerrillas sneak into their occupied capital of Enugu at night to harry the federal garrison, are battling with rusty Dane guns and cutlasses against a federal division along the Niger River. The Biafrans have also prevented another invasion force dug into the port town of Calabar from crossing a channel and taking...
...assassin almost collected in 1953, but the bullet-resistant glass in Gehlen's Mercedes deflected the revolver slugs. That was the closest the Communists came, for Gehlen was a furtive quarry. He allowed no pictures to be taken (the only postwar photograph of him was a sneak shot taken in 1957), traveled under aliases, continually switched the license plates on his cars, and was known by sight only to a handful of top Western officials. Last week the West German government announced that its master spy will retire in April, when he reaches...