Word: raid
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...State Henry Kissinger flew from Washington last week to begin the most crucial Middle East negotiations he has undertaken so far, a small band of seaborne Palestinian commandos in a rubber dinghy landed on the Israeli coast at Tel Aviv. The havoc they caused, in a daring and bloody raid on Israel's biggest city, complicated Kissinger's already difficult chances for bringing about a second-stage disengagement agreement between Israel and Egypt...
After Nikita Khrushchev's 1962 decision to let One Day be published in order to further the Premier's destalinization policies, Solzhenitsyn's fortunes depended on Khrushchev's. A year after his fall, the secret police raided two Moscow apartments where Solzhenitsyn's archives, including copies of The First Circle, were hidden. "I was so depressed," he writes about learning of his exposure, "that I contemplated suicide, for the first and, I hope, the last time in my life." After that raid, Solzhenitsyn began microfilming all his work and arranging for its underground transmission abroad...
Foote's scholarship is obviously extensive, but he is also a gifted storyteller and assembler of vignettes. He includes nice touches of grand illusion. When Bedford Forrest led his Confederate cavalrymen on a raid into occupied Memphis, one of his officers captured the uniform of the Federal commander, C.C. Washburn, and proudly displayed it as a trophy. Forrest gallantly returned the uniform to Washburn under a flag of truce. Some weeks later, also under a flag of truce, Washburn sent Forrest a fine gray uniform made to measure by the cavalryman's own prewar Memphis tailor. As Jefferson...
Whether or not the Israelis were responsible for the attack, the fedayeen quickly acted. The day after the Beirut raid, a young man in a cinema in Tel Aviv tossed homemade hand grenades into the audience. Three people-including the terrorist-were killed and nearly 60 injured. In Beirut, P.L.O. Leader Yasser Arafat declared: "We have retaliated for the Beirut attack." However, some neutral observers questioned whether the attack was retaliatory. They doubt that the P.L.O. could so quickly organize the operation. Credit for the attack was claimed by George Habash's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine...
ANOTHER CASTRO is one of the subjects in two articles on the farmworkers' union battle in the December/January issue of Ramparts. David B. Castro is the secretary-treasurer of the Teamsters' farmworkers' union Local 1973 in Salinas, California, and according to George Baker's article, "The Teamster Raid: Stalled in the Vineyards," he is the symbol of the real struggle between the UFW and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Castro is portrayed as a slick image-conscious operator who feels that if his underlings can't "sell me, I'll lose the [possible union] election." Baker avoids the simplistic statistical...