Word: raid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...revenge the dead and discourage further attacks, Israel retaliated-and perhaps overreacted-with heavy artillery barrages and bombing raids on southern Lebanon. When the Israeli Phantoms and Kfirs had completed their runs and wheeled back to base, three villages-'Izziyah, Hinniyah and Burj al Shamali-had been all but wiped out. The Lebanese government claimed that at least 119 people, most of them women and children, were dead and more than 200 were wounded. The casualty toll was the worst ever in southern Lebanon, exceeding that of a similar Israeli raid on Dec. 2, 1975, in which 100 died...
...organization seems to encourage prostitution. "I don't agree prostitution is a victimless crime," Doyle adds. He asserts broadly that decriminalization would threten the very nature of society, but then doyle once attended a legislative hearing on prostitution with a bullwhip he claimed police had confiscated in a raid on a house of prostitution...
...gang of anarchists that kidnaped West German Industrialist Hanns-Mar-tin Schleyer in early September. Schley-er's body was found in the trunk of a car in Mulhouse, France, not far from the German border two weeks ago, shortly after West German commandos staged their daring rescue raid on a skyjacked Lufthansa jet in Mogadishu, Somalia (TIME cover...
...hanging. The state government of Baden-Wurttemberg, which runs Stammheim prison, issued a preliminary report. In the terrorists' cells, investigators had found hidden explosives, razor blades, a radio and homemade Morse code equipment. They theorized that when one prisoner, Raspe, had picked up the news of the Mogadishu raid on his secret transistor radio, he immediately passed the word to the others through Morse code signals. This, the investigators speculated, led the prisoners to carry out the carefully planned suicide pact...
...According to reports from Beirut, all four hijackers were Palestinians associated with the notorious terrorist Wadi el Haddad. Three died in the Mogadishu raid; the fourth remained in a Somali hos-pitalJast week...