Word: raid
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...outrage that the police raid provoked among residents had a familiar ring. During the search of a black household in London's Brixton area last month, an officer shot a woman, leaving her paralyzed from the waist down. That shooting touched off a night of riots...
...Hussein and P.L.O. Leader Arafat agreed last February to work together to get Middle East peace talks moving again, Mubarak has hoped to bring Israel and Jordan to the negotiating table. That hope was dealt a rude blow two weeks ago, when Israel launched a 1,500-mile bombing raid on Arafat's P.L.O. headquarters near Tunis...
Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres insisted that the raid had been a response to a recent increase in P.L.O. terrorism. Said he: "It was an act of self-defense. Period." The Yom Kippur murders at Larnaca had shocked Israelis and intensified the pressure on Peres to take decisive action. But ! in the Arab world last week, the view was that Israel's real aim had been to torpedo the peace process...
While that judgment did not take full account of the fact that terrorism by the P.L.O. has never really stopped, it accurately reflected the anger engendered in many quarters by the Israeli raid. Symbolic of the prevailing mood was a State Department advisory to its missions throughout the world last week: Be on guard against terrorist attacks...
...other communiques from the shadowy Islamic Jihad, the chilling message arrived in a brown paper envelope at the offices of the Beirut newspaper An- Nahar. American Hostage William Buckley, said a long typewritten statement, had been "tried and executed" to avenge the Palestinians and Tunisians killed in the Israeli raid on Palestine Liberation Organization headquarters in Tunis. Buckley, 57, was a political officer at the U.S. embassy when he was kidnaped on his way to work on March...