Word: raid
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Israel was the victim of the week's most spectacular raid, a strike at its oil installations at Haifa, the country's chief seaport. In the early morning, a lone Palestinian fedayeen crept up to a complex of eight pipelines carrying oil from the Haifa refinery to dockside and placed three pounds of explosives under a manifold. The resulting blast knocked three of the pipelines temporarily out of commission and started a fire that destroyed 1,500 tons of refined oil. It was the most spectacular act of Arab sabotage since the June...
Crossing south of Great Bitter Lake, they met an Israeli patrol, and in a three-hour firefight near Suez, four Israelis and one Egyptian were wounded. In an other raid, south of El Qantara, the Egyptians unsuccessfully stormed an Israeli army post, losing three men (Egypt claimed 22 Israelis killed). In a third attack, Egyptian commandos tried to breach a road leading to the strategic Mitla Pass. The attacking Egyptian force was repulsed after killing one Israeli private...
...Dawn Raid. Exactly how much fighting, if any, the oil crew had engaged in was by no means clear. The Biafrans accused them of putting out markers to indicate Biafran positions and of leading Nigerian forces. Other sources related the incident differently. A Nigerian watchman in the oil camp, who survived by hiding under a truck, maintained that Biafran commandos attacked the camp in a surprise dawn raid. They sprayed it with automatic-weapons fire and shot down the eleven who were killed as they emerged from their bunkhouses to see what was happening...
Cambridge police sent Harvard a bill for $5007 for "overtime police expenses on April 10," and the Boston force sent its own $1226 bill. Harvard administrators said they had not heard whether the State Police would also ask for payment for use of its 200 men during the raid on University Hall...
April 11: At a special meeting, the Faculty voted to drop criminal charges against students arrested in the raid and to elect a special committee to handle discipline and to study the causes and effects of the disruption. The Faculty combined two proposed resolutions and finally passed a statement criticizing both the seizure of the building and the use of police. President Pusey and Dean Ford explained the decision to call police, stressing the importance of files in University Hall and the Administration's feeling that "there was no alternative...