Word: raid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hostage mess had turned brackish, and worse was to come: at 7 a.m. on Friday, April 25, Carter told the nation that a U.S. military raid to rescue the hostages had been aborted, leaving the burned bodies of eight servicemen behind in the Iranian desert. In the next days, Americans gloomily sifted the rubble of their hopes and the nation's self-respect. Why had three of eight Sea Stallion helicopters failed? What was wrong with our equipment, or our nerve? Had there been a reasonable chance of success or was Carter's raid an ill-advised...
...failed raid left the U.S. with few useful cards to play. It may also have been the moment at which the electorate, almost subliminally, began to harden in the view that Carter was hopeless. Yet he continued to roll over Kennedy in the primaries and went on to win renomination by his party. Republican Ronald Reagan continued to hammer away at the Administration's foreign policy failings without dwelling on the desert debacle. But it was becoming clear that Carter's handling of the entire hostage crisis was perceived by many voters as a disaster...
...once the government in Rome appeared to have acted swiftly and effectively. But the lightning raid on Trani prison was about the only message of holiday cheer for Italy's beleaguered Prime Minister Arnaldo Forlani. The satisfaction turned out to be sadly short-lived. Just two days after the success, terrorists struck again, this time outside prison walls in Rome. Two teenagers, posing as delivery boys, gunned down Carabinieri General Enrico Galvaligi, 61, as he and his wife returned home from New Year's Eve Mass. The slain general had been in charge of external security for Italian...
...black immigrants from the West African nation of Mali. They had just settled into their newly refurbished, five-story government housing project in the southeastern Paris suburb of Vitry-sur-Seine. Then, on Christmas Eve, the quiet of the shabby, working-class district was broken by a raid of angry townspeople. Accompanied by Paul Mercieca, Vitry's Communist mayor, a group of 50 residents and town officials swarmed over the building. They snipped telephone lines, sawed off water pipes, tore hot water heaters off the walls and ripped the wiring out of fuse boxes. While Mercieca stirred...
...Communist strongholds, the party has become sensitive to the issue. Once lukewarm defenders of immigrant workers' rights, the Communists now oppose any further relocation of immigrants in public housing, and will no doubt ride the issue all the way to the presidential election campaign next spring. The Vitry raid was duly denounced by a series of local political and labor organizations. But the liberal daily Le Quotidien de Paris sadly acknowledged that "electorally, it was the most profitable strategy...