Word: raid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...security police have also gone so far as to raid Pogrund's home. On one occasion raiders barged in on him in the middle of his work on a doctoral study of black nationalist movements in South Africa and arrested him, charging him with possession of banned leftist newspapers--all more than twenty years old. Ten years ago, when he began to report on prisons, the government confiscated his visa, later restricted it, and it was only last year that he regained the normal traveling privileges that allowed him to accept The globe's invitation...
...airborne assault-Alyeska President Bill Darch calls it a "commando raid"-on the pass could be stopped cold by a heavy snowfall. If it was, finishing touches on this last difficult part of the line would have to wait until about 30 ft. of snow melts late next spring...
Marxist President Samora Machel, 43, rejects a peaceful settlement for Rhodesia and says that a long war is needed to "liberate the minds" of blacks. He operates camps for 5,000 to 8,000 Rhodesian guerrillas. His own Chinese-trained 10,000-man army has staged an occasional raid into Rhodesia...
...southern Africa: The Rev. Rex Humbard prize for rightist propaganda goes this week to the news editors of The New York times, along with editorial page Editor John B. Oakes. The outpouring began earlier this week with a by-lined story from Salisbury, Rhodesia, cataloguing the murderous Rhodesian army raid on a black guerilla camp in Mozambique. More than 300 Africans were killed according to Salisbury sources quoted by The Times; this, in retaliation for a mortar attack on an army camp where four Rhodesian troops died. Following that story, in which not one Mozambican or guerrilla source was quoted...
...trouble began last February, when Amin claimed a large chunk of Kenyan territory and made veiled threats to take it by force. Then came the raid on Entebbe in July, when Kenya added to Amin's ire by allowing Israel to refuel its planes in Nairobi. After several hundred Kenyans living in Uganda were reported murdered in retaliation, Kenyan border guards began halting the fuel trucks. Amin last week appealed to the United Nations and the Organization of African Unity for aid to counter the blockade, which he warned "may force Uganda to resort to desperate action...