Word: commandos
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...case anybody still had not guessed that the South Vietnamese were coming, helicopters loaded with airborne commando teams clattered noisily into points north of Chup, and American B-52s made basso-profundo bombing runs...
...Common Man. Habash was sharply critical of Al-Fatah Leader Yasser Arafat, not only for accepting a Saudi subsidy but also for misreading Hussein's intentions last September. "The big error," said Habash, "was that certain commando groups-I am speaking of Fatah-did not recognize that the Jordanian regime is reactionary and ordered by American imperialism. Because Jordan is Arab and because Hussein is an Arab name, they thought he would not attack. But the threat was exactly like the danger we face from Israel. There is no difference between Hussein and Moshe Dayan...
...break was executed with all the attention to detail and derring-do of a commando raid. Early one evening last week, two well-dressed young men called at the home of Billy Rial Castillo, 30, a Mormon missionary who lives across the street from Montevideo's Punta Carreta federal prison. "We are Tupamaros," said the men as they pulled out pistols and identified themselves as members of the urban guerrilla group that has served as a model for terrorists in many of the world's major cities. "We need this house for an operation." The operation...
...accused, but later exonerated, of plotting a coup against the Aldo Moro government in 1964. Loosely associated with the M.S.I, are squads of youthful right-wing neoFascists, many of whom do wear black shirts. The bullyboys have taken on the far-left radicals with bombs, bicycle chains and commando-type tactics...
...Israeli official visiting Kinshasa. "And how is King David?" In Ethiopia, Uganda and the Congo, where Israel's defense forces conduct military training and operations, Israelis are also the people of the gun. In Ethiopia, they have trained the country's entire security force, including commando units operating against Eritrean rebels hostile to Emperor Haile Selassie. Israeli agents in southwestern Ethiopia direct airdrops to southern Sudan's black rebels in their fight against the Arab-run Khartoum government...