Word: raid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seriously. After all, the makers of Delta Force picked an actual event and then selected an Amercian reaction to it which they felt was more appropriate than the actual reaction. I was forced to decide whether this reaction was actually superior. The success of an actual Delta Force raid on Beirut was so slim as to be ridiculous. The penalty for failure was also too great. If anything, Delta Force is a demonstration of how dangerous such rash, jingoistic actions can be. Of course, it is also a demonstration of how low the movie industry can sink...
...Botha announced that his government might be prepared to end the 23-year imprisonment of Mandela, the leading figure in the outlawed African National Congress, the country's most popular black political organization. Botha's price: the release by Angola of a South African officer captured during a commando raid in that country last year, as well as the freeing of the two prominent Soviet dissidents. Botha then reminded his listeners that he had offered to free Mandela last year if the black leader agreed to renounce the use of violence and that Mandela had refused. "I am conscious...
...initially welcome the "instant justice" guerrillas apply to abusive individuals change their minds as vengeance turns capricious and arbitrary. Salve Regalario, a guerrilla who surrendered to the military in September 1983, described the interrogation of Elmundo Serrano, a farmer accused of complicity with the military during a raid. "He would not admit he was an informer, so he was beaten. Finally he had so many wounds that I shot him." Regalario later found out that the farmer had not been in the area during the raid and was the victim of a personal grudge held by a party member...
...respond. Nevertheless, two weeks ago, Jonathan sent a delegation to Pretoria to discuss a settlement. Diplomatic sources in Maseru suggest that General Lekhanya, a member of the group, decided to stage his coup when the South Africans told him that they would continue the blockade and might openly raid A.N.C. bases in Lesotho if the country did not change its policies toward Communist countries and the A.N.C. The day after the coup, Lekhanya sent a new delegation to Pretoria. After meeting with its members, Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha announced that the two countries had agreed to work toward "good...
...show, sponsored by the Valiant Air Command, one of several nonprofit organizations in the country whose aim is to restore and maintain historic aircraft, had hoped to re-create the Doolittle raid by getting 16 B-25s off the ground at Titusville. "Folks, we really tried," apologized an announcer, Ted Anderson. "At the moment, there aren't 16 flyable B-25s in America." In the end, they got seven...