Word: raid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...officials of Nicaragua's Sandinista government inspected the damage, the Revolutionary Democratic Alliance (A.R.D.E.), a group of anti-Sandinista rebels based in neighboring Costa Rica, claimed responsibility for the air raid. The rebel group is led by Edén Pastora Gómez, "Commander Zero," a hero of the revolution that overthrew Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle in 1979 and now a bitter opponent of the Sandinista government. Dozens of people were in the terminal at the moment of the attack, but only four people were injured, mostly by shrapnel and flying debris. One, a young military reservist, died...
...that the planes had come from Costa Rica. A.R.D.E. sources claimed that the flights had originated at a dirt airstrip that the rebels had recently captured in southeastern Nicaragua. Nicaraguan leaders placed the blame for the attack not on A.R.D.E. or Costa Rica but on the U.S., calling the raid "a cowardly and criminal act." Said D'Escoto: "The only true responsibility is President Reagan's and his Administration's, which has conceived, directed and financed the counterrevolutionary groups he calls freedom fighters...
...well as events in Lebanon and Central America. All ran holiday-themed stories about the politically troubled American labor union movement. There were notable differences, of course: the networks played up stories for which they had vivid pictures-the police crackdown against antigovernment demonstrators in Chile, an air raid in Managua by opponents of the Nicaraguan junta. Without comparable footage, the News-Hour dealt with these events in a few sentences. Says Lehrer: "The networks will spend $25,000 to rush home a videotape of a building burning in Beirut. We are more interested in perspective...
...officers, all of them white, were accused of abetting saboteurs from neighboring South Africa who destroyed or damaged about 25% of Zimbabwe's combat aircraft with phosphorus grenades in a midnight raid a year ago on Thornhill air force base in the Zimbabwe midlands. They were brought to court in May and faced maximum penalties of death or life imprisonment...
...decades women have raided men's wardrobes for their own clothing, appropriating everything from combat fatigues to tailored shirts. The current dress-for-success fad demands conservative suits for the office, and designers such as Giorgio Armani and Ralph Lauren create unstructured blazers and oversized jackets for the more stylish. Just when it seemed that there was nothing left in the masculine closet to imitate, Designer Calvin Klein has made a new raid: women's underwear boldly based on men's models. Women's Wear Daily is declaring it a hit. The collection, predicts the paper...