Word: waylaid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHEN Attorney General Bobby Kennedy won the conviction that sent Teamsters' boss Jimmy Hoffa to prison, many people wondered whether blind justice hadn't been waylaid in favor of a grudge. The word was that Kennedy had a vendetta and that it was selective justice that had put Hoffa away...
Strindberg and Senelick seem to have their vendettas and perhaps blind justice has been waylaid...
...Cambodian capital. The Communists have not committed the troops needed to pinch off all of its road links at once, but they have hit each often enough to make highway travel risky at best. Northwest of Phnom-Penh on Route 5, rice-laden trucks bound for the city are waylaid fairly frequently. The closing of Route 4 spelled an end to the petroleum supplies that had come by truck from Kompong Som. Some fuel comes up the Mekong by tanker, but not enough to prevent shortages...
Died. Pedro Taruc, 68, ranking commander of the Hukbalahap agrarian rebel movement in the Philippines; by gunfire when he was waylaid by an army unit; in Angeles, near Clark airbase. A relative of Luis Taruc, rebel leader who surrendered to President Ramon Magsaysay in 1954, Taruc led the Huks since 1964, but failed to replenish their dwindling numbers. His death destroys the guerrilla threat to the government of President Ferdinand Marcos...
Roving gangs of black 1st Air Cav troopers at Bien Hoa and of 9th Division soldiers at Dong Tam have waylaid unsuspecting whites...