Word: commando
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...main target of the Israeli planes had been the Palestine Liberation Organization's several commando offices in West Beirut. The command centers of two important components of the P.L.O., Fatah and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, escaped virtually unscathed, although the headquarters of two smaller groups, the P.F.L.P.-General Command and the Syrian-dominated Saiqa, were partly destroyed. The most serious damage took place in densely crowded areas like the Fakhani district behind the Fatah center, where half a dozen large office and apartment buildings collapsed. Israeli officials said the object of the attack...
...Israeli reaction was, naturally enough, pride in their military accomplishment. But there was not the same spontaneous celebration in the streets, for example, that greeted the July 1976 pinpoint Israeli commando raid on Uganda's Entebbe airfield. One reason was that as international criticism started to pour in, many Israelis sensed an impending isolation. Said Eli Ben-Hamo, 26, a Jerusalem café owner: "It was necessary. It had to be done. But I'm worried. We're doing it to ourselves. For years the world didn't much like us. Nowadays we're giving them reason...
South Africa's military is indisputably the most powerful in the region. Commando units regularly conduct illegal raids with impunity across the borders of neighboring countries in search-and-destroy missions against A.N.C. guerrillas or forces of Namibia's South West...
...enter Laos on behalf of the soldiers missing in action but not the first ones to try. Angered by the refusal of the Carter Administration to accept and act on the uncertain proof that Americans are being held in Southeast Asia, families of the missing raised a dozen-man commando squad of their own-an underfinanced and overaged group of veterans from the Green Berets. Their improbable training center for an operation code-named "Velvet Hammer" was an academy for cheerleaders in Leesburg, Fla., near Orlando. Their leader was retired Lieut. Colonel James ("Bo") Gritz, 42, a former Army public...
...fact that Israel demands basic military service from virtually every young person-two years for women, three years for men. Elite volunteer units are more popular with the public than ever before. Young Israelis still yearn to be jet pilots, but they also apply enthusiastically for the paratroopers, naval commando units, and groups like the crack Golani brigade, which has carried out many of the recent raids into Lebanon. Women, once rare in field forces, now work as tank and plane mechanics, serve in artillery and communication units and are sometimes posted to duty as drill sergeants...