Word: commando
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Cinema 57: 200 Stuart St, near Park St, Boston, 482-1222. Commando: 1, 3:15, 5:25, 7:45, 10:10; Invasion...
...Auckland, police confirmed that Sophie and Alain Turenge, the French- speaking couple they arrested, are actually Dominique Prieur, a captain in the DGSE, and an as yet unnamed commander at the French naval commando center in Corsica, where underwater demolition divers are trained. The two are being held on charges of murder, arson and conspiracy. Police are searching for four alleged accomplices. More damaging evidence emerged last week from Politician Bernard Stasi, a member of the centrist opposition who was France's Minister of Overseas Territories in 1973 and 1974. Stasi told reporters that the intelligence agency had begun plotting...
Embarrassment piled on embarrassment for the South African government last week after the ambush of a nine-man commando unit by Angolan troops. Reason: South Africa was supposed to have withdrawn the last of its soldiers from Angola in April under a U.S.-mediated accord. General Constand Viljoen, head of South Africa's Defense Forces, admitted that the country still had military units in Angola on "reconnaissance and information-gathering" missions against rebel groups like the African National Congress (ANC), which is known to have bases there. But the captured leader of the commando squad, Captain Wynand Petrus du Toit...
...week's end it seemed that the commando incident had produced its first political casualty. Pretoria announced that the hawkish General Viljoen, 51, had decided to retire. Nevertheless, government spokesmen continued to claim that the outlawed ANC is increasing its actions against civilian targets in South Africa. Lending support to this claim, a bomb went off last week in a building used by the Defense Forces in Johannesburg, injuring 17 people. Two days later, a second blast in the city damaged the offices of an organization that sends money, books and food parcels to South African troops. The ANC claimed...
...from a woman who asked in a heavy German accent whether her father was home. The French terrorists seem to take pains to identify themselves with their West German counterparts. After Audran's assassination, for example, Action Directe attributed the killing to what it called "the Elizabeth von Dick Commando," named for a member of the Red Army Faction killed by West German police seven years...