Word: commando
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...Watergate break-in, will learn surveillance techniques on the streets of Miami, familiarize themselves with weapons on a nearby firing range, and practice defensive driving and counterterrorism in locations that the school refuses to name "for security reasons." Faculty members, according to Liddy, include "a ten-man Israeli commando team and two ex-British commandos...
Less than 24 hours after South Africa's commando raid last week, it was business as usual at the whitewashed single-story headquarters of the African National Congress in downtown Lusaka. An A.N.C. official glanced only casually at visitors as they passed through the half-open steel gate. Within the compound, Oliver Tambo, 68, a lawyer and political activist who became acting president of the organization in 1967, sat inside a cramped and sparsely furnished office, drafting a press statement about the attack. None of the 20 or so staffers on hand seemed unduly alarmed by the raid. "We live...
...base of Libya's fleet of nine Il-76s, which have been used in terrorist operations for supply and transport. A third target was the Benghazi army barracks, which Gaddafi uses as an alternative command post. Then came barracks at the naval port of Sidi Bilal, near Tripoli, a commando training facility. Finally, security officials recommended a strike at the Benina airfield, where Libya's MiG-23 interceptors are based, as a precaution against counterattack...
TRIPOLI, Libya--United States warplanes heavily damaged a naval installation that U.S. officials said was a commando training base during the American raid last week on reputed terrorist targets in Libya...
...officer who identified himself as the academy's commander for the past seven years. The officer, who refused to give his name or rank, said he had no idea of the damage inflicted on the walled area, where Libyans are believed to receive training in underwater demolition and commando operations. He would not say what kind of activity went on in the walled area...