1.   Fearing a political ambush by Clinton and the American Association of Retired Persons, Speaker Newt Gingrich said he had reached a similar conclusion.

2.   Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush angrily walked out of a Senate hearing Tuesday after accusing it of orchestrating a political ambush.

3.   No one in Washington wants to make the first concrete offer of Social Security changes, for fear of getting torched in a political ambush.

4.   This whole thing has looked like a down-and-dirty political ambush from the word go, to me and to most Americans.

5.   Italian Prime Minister Lamberto Dini was lauded Friday by the press for surviving a political ambush set by former prime minister and media mogul Silvio Berlusconi.