Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wish." From the first ambush, the Israeli army and police played a grisly game of hide-and-seek with the infiltrators. Clues were stiffening bodies, blown-up irrigation pipes, wrecked rail lines, burnt-out cars and trucks-a trail of death running between the fields of ripening corn, blossom-scented orange groves, drying creek beds and shifting dunes, to the shallow trench that divides Israel from the refugee-jammed Gaza strip. The Israelis killed eleven, captured four. One patrol stalked a returning assassin team for 18 hours, killed all five "self-sacrificers" as they hid in a clump of trees...
...parents. When the U.S.-backed Greek army defeated the Communist partisans in 1949, Zachariades fled to Rumania. At Stalin's bloody-minded behest, he ordered the execution of Partisan General Markos Vafiades. Thereafter he dribbled Communist spies into Greece, whom he denounced whenever the police got on their trail...
...series on such "tygoons" as Frank Costello and Joe Adonis, Graham conceived a congressional investigation and began scanning the U.S. Senate to cast a likely Senator in the top role. He needed a man who 1) did not come from a state to which the corrupt trail would lead, and 2) could handle himself...
...Express have her cremated and scatter her ashes on the Nile. Asked by the U.S. embassy, in 1954, to look for a traveling Vassar girl whose father had died at home, the Paris office found that it had booked the girl on a train trip to Nice, followed the trail through five countries before catching up with her in Zurich. After a New York matron complained that her daughter had disappeared in Europe, the company finally tracked the girl down in Paris, where she had set up light housekeeping with a Frenchman. One Christmas in London, a middle-aged American...
Covering the Trail. At the trial of a Post Exchange official two years ago, McLane turned state's evidence, won his own immunity and identified The Organization as a small group of purchasing agents for the U.S. armed forces who handed out fat Government contracts in return for personal kickbacks of 1% to 5%. All told, McLane said, he paid The Organization some $235,000 by depositing money to an account in Zurich's Credit Suisse. Out of twelve PX officials McLane named, only one, Charles E. Wilson, was tried. He was convicted, fined $5,000 and sentenced...