31.   But Kansas City ruined that strategy with a surprise attack.

32.   But rebel forces staged a surprise attack in Staraya Sunzha, a suburb east of Grozny.

33.   But the overall process looks suspiciously like a surprise attack on the way the city is governed.

34.   China lacks the amphibious lift capability to sustain a massive surprise attack over water.

35.   Clinton had, in effect, donned the uniform of his adversaries and mounted a surprise attack from the right.

36.   Cold War tensions were high, and both Washington and Moscow lived in fear of a surprise attack by the other side.

37.   Congress called on President Clinton to exculpate the commanders at Pearl Harbor of any responsibility for the devastating surprise attack.

38.   During those negotiations Israel all but promised the return of the Golan Heights in exchange for specific security guarantees aimed at preventing surprise military attacks.

39.   Each became the target of an surprise attack in a conservative newspaper or by a Republican senator.

40.   Egyptian and Syrian forces mounted surprise attacks on the Israeli-held Sinai peninsula and Golan Heights and fought furiously on two fronts at once.