Word: raid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...centra! front, armored columns from three U.S. divisions thrust north in the largest armored raid in many months. The raid was christened "Operation Cleaver," but ebullient correspondents were cautioned not to call it an "offensive." Two of the columns got into savage fighting, and one was reported "engaged on all sides" (i.e., surrounded). The Reds, said a U.N. officer, seemed to have antitank guns "in every nook and corner of the valley." The raiders succeeded in wrecking "several" of the enemy's T-34 tanks...
...They recall how unconquerably waggish he sounded when he shouted (on the eve of World War II): "If an enemy bomber reaches the Ruhr, my name is not Hermann Goering; you can call me Meier"-and how they still had to laugh when he came scuttling into an air-raid shelter on the eve of Germany's surrender, barking gaily: "May I introduce myself? My name is Meier...
Reason: The MacArthur firing and the MacArthur hearings have moved Washington toward a more decisive policy. The Rashin raid could be interpreted by the stalling Chinese only as a taste of Mac-Arthur policy-a pointed hint that if the truce talks fail, the U.S. will no longer play by the old confining ground rules...
...important communications town of Rashin, which lies on the rail line from Manchuria's Harbin down Korea's east coast. The bombers smashed warehouses, a locomotive repair shop, a marshaling yard. There was no flak and no enemy interception. It would have been a routine raid if it were not for Rashin's peculiar history...
Johannesburg's 4,000 policemen do not dare patrol the locations. Instead, they raid them at regular intervals. A police party, strongly armed, will arrive in cars, nearly always late at night. They break into houses at random, demand "passes" (all Negroes must carry passes to prove they are employed by whites), and turn the houses upside down, looking for liquor. The armed police go in constant danger of their lives. A white policeman's wife writes: "It is no joke to lie awake at night and wonder if one's husband will come back safely...