Word: raid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...near the French port city of Toulon and exploded plastic charges near two reactor cores that were scheduled to be shipped to Iraq three days later; the explosions caused extensive damage and delayed the program by months. The French suspect the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad was responsible for the raid. In June one of Iraq's top nuclear scientists was found bludgeoned to death in a Paris hotel room. In that case, however, French police were less convinced that the murder had anything to do with international antinuclear intrigue...
...feel I've been completely compromised," said Reporter Loy, who had talked his way into the Idaho prison as a member of a convict-approved "citizens committee." "These people asked me to go in because they knew I could be trusted." CBS News President Bill Leonard called the raid "unjustified." New York Attorney Floyd Abrams, who has argued several press freedom cases, said the Boise action was "particularly offensive" because the prosecutors did not seek a subpoena for the tapes...
DIED. Haydeé Santamaria Cuadrado, 53, one of two women who took part in the July 26,1953, attack on the Moncada barracks in Santiago de Cuba that launched Fidel Castro's revolution; by her own hand; in Havana. She survived seven months of imprisonment after the abortive raid and eventually joined Castro's guerrillas in the Sierra Maestra until their victory...
...some observers, the militia leaders appear to have the morals of Mafia dons. The Phalangists' sneak attack was reminiscent of a raid they made in June 1978 on still another Christian faction, the one led by former Lebanese President Suleiman Franjieh. In that attack, Franjieh's eldest son Tony, as well as Tony's wife and infant daughter, was slain by Phalangist gunmen. In their assault on the National Liberals last week, the Phalangists seized and burned the home of Dany Chamoun, the son of the party leader and the commander of the group's militia...
Washington similarly blames the Europeans for not giving stronger support on Iran, but many Europeans regard the botched raid on Tehran as symbolic of U.S. decline. Says Jean-Francois Revel, editor of L 'Express and long an admirer of the U.S.: "We Europeans, along with the rest of the world, heard the bell of U.S. military supremacy toll in Iran...