Word: raid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year-old author-activist has proved herself a prophet of causes that others will eventually join. A redoubtable spokeswoman for pacifism and social reform, she earned an almost annual trip to New York City jails during the '50s for her refusal to participate in compulsory air-raid drills. This time she was arrested, with more than 2,100 Mexican-Americans and members of the Catholic clergy, for demonstrating on the picket lines of the United Farm Workers in violation of court orders. These have been hard times for Cesar Chavez's UFW. His union, caught in a squeeze...
Sealed Orders. Whoever was responsible apparently did not feel that the Pentagon's normal channels of secrecy would sufficiently guard the Cambodia bombing. Major Knight said that bombing orders in sealed, unmarked envelopes were secretly flown from Saigon by propeller-driven courier aircraft each afternoon before a raid. They were kept under lock and key until dusk-the missions were flown at night to avoid detection-then transmitted by radio to the approaching...
...even more heatedly denied by Mitchell. Magruder had claimed that after the initial Watergate burglary on May 27 he had shown some photographed Democratic documents and intercepted telephone conversations to Mitchell, who was described as so irate over the results that the burglars made their second and fateful raid on June 17. It was this charge that Mitchell termed "a palpable, damnable...
...times it is brutally beautiful, lavishly choreographed - a pagan ritual in evening dress. The script, which has some vague relation to Bram Stoker's novel Dracula, concerns the exploits of a university student named Jonathan who is dis patched by his professor to scout a prospective raid on a vampire fortress...
...most inflammatory of the propaganda programs are those by the Palestinian guerrilla movement. After the Israeli commando raid on Beirut in April, a Voice of Palestine broadcast from Algiers called on Arabs to "kill everyone who is American because all of them work for American intelligence...