Word: raid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from the Mediterranean to the foothills of Mount Herman. Within 48 hours the Israeli forces, some 10,000 in all, were ready to move, and missile boats were poised to strike at Lebanese ports. Then, after a 24-hour delay caused by rain and heavy clouds, the biggest antiterrorist raid ever mounted by Israel began...
Maksoud said the Israelis used the recent Palestinian raid as a pretext for acquisition of land south of the Litani River that Israel has long coveted...
...invasion served other purposes. Maksoud added--to cover up evidence of the internal security failure shown by the Palestinian attack, and to draw attention away from the fact that most of the civilians who were killed in the raid were actually shot by Israeli police in crossfire...
...former organization, presumably to be used as some kind of secret weapon (he makes foreign presidents' noses bleed--just kidding; actually, he can marshall quite a fury when mad). Douglas must elude the network of agents controlled by John Cassavetes, whose arm he crippled during the terrorist raid that begins the film, in which Robin is captured. Enter Gillian (Amy Irving), another telekinetic whom Cassavetes is grooming at a parapsychic institute to join Robin. She experiences flashes of telepathy with Robin, and when Douglas learns of her existence he resolves to rescue her from the institute so that...
...armed guerrillas in camouflage fatigues, paddling in rubber boats across the river-the border between Zambia and Rhodesia. The Rhodesians opened fire, and Canberra and Hawker Hunter jets soon joined the battle. So began Rhodesia's first admitted "external" (i.e., incursion) into Zambian territory-a two-day raid that destroyed an arms cache and a command camp of Joshua Nkomo's 8,000-man guerrilla army. Rhodesia announced that the "self-defense" raid-"It was a beautiful op, smooth as butter," said one officer in Salisbury-killed 38 guerrillas at the cost of one white Rhodesian trooper. Insisting...