Word: raid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...told the nation that as long as he is in office he will not tolerate terrorism anywhere. Attacking Libya in response to what was a Libyan war waged through terrorism was justified, though the resulting civilian casualities are tragic. But it would be wrong to see Monday night's raid as the successful initiation of a new American policy for responding to terrorism in general...
When a representative from the Arab League condemned the raid for its failure to deal with the root of terrorism, he misunderstood the character of Libya's actions. He argued that the frustration of attempts to bring about the formation of a Palestinian homeland has left Arabs so outraged that they have resorted to terrorism. But in the case of Libya, the Palestinian question had precious little to do with terrorism. The bombing of a West German disco or the proposal to buy U.S. hostages from Lebanon were state-ordered acts, not expressions of violence by angry Palestinian youths...
These intertwined circumstances make The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor something more than another raid on a successful author's juvenilia. For Garcia Marquez, who would become world famous through his novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, this early effort in journalism provided a lesson in the bizarre effects that telling a tale can have on characters and author alike. His attempt to reconstruct Velasco's experiences as factually as possible assumed a life of its own; the sailor who braved exposure and sharks fell afoul of the words of his story. And words, paradoxically, rescued Velasco's adventure from...
...similar desperation tactics last month to gain support for his unpopular, idiosyncratic policy. The day before the Senate voted on his aid request, Reagan's Administration--in the words of a senior Honduran official quoted in The New York Times--"deliberately exaggerated the seriousness of Nicaragua's recent border raid and pressed Honduras to ask for $20 million...
...last several weeks we have mobilized many thousands of men to the border. But it is absolutely false that Nicaraguan troops have violated Honduran territory." But the Sandinistas undercut their own denials later. At a press conference on Friday, Ortega sought to justify but not deny the raid. "Honduras lost control of its sovereignty by having the mercenary forces there," he said, referring to the contras. "The border area is converted into a war zone. We have a legitimate right to defend our country." That statement made clear that Nicaragua regards any area where the contras are encamped inside Honduras...