Word: raid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...struggle over the troubled future of Central America grew fiercer last week. In El Salvador, Marxist guerrillas scored a psychological triumph with a surprise raid on the country's economic heartland; for the first time a U.S. military adviser was wounded. In Honduras, a major display of U.S. military logistics was intended to send an intimidating message to neighboring Nicaragua's Sandinista government. At the same time, the covert border war against the Sandinistas heated up, even though the Marxist leadership seemed more entrenched than ever. Reports from the scenes of battle...
...standards of El Salvador's tortuous three-year civil war, the first signs of the impending debacle were small ones. As some 70 members of the country's National Police guarded the once bustling agricultural center of Berlin (pop. about 30,000), guerrillas launched a cautious nighttime raid. For an hour small-arms fire popped back and forth between the opposing forces. Then the guerrillas slipped away into the surrounding cotton and coffee fields of Usulután, one of El Salvador's richest and most strategic departments...
...last November, former Green Beret Lieut. Colonel James G. ("Bo") Gritz, 44, led three fellow U.S. Army veterans and 15 Laotian guerrillas into Thailand in search of American soldiers listed as missing in action. The Defense Department, which knew of the plan, warned against it, and the unsanctioned commando raid turned up no Americans and no fresh information. Last week, however, the eagerness of Gritz's colleagues to tell their stories to Soldier of Fortune magazine, among others, did serve to embarrass their improbable group of backers and suppliers, who, it turns out, included Actors Clint Eastwood...
...press conference last week, Memphis police officials tried to bury any doubts about whether the raid had been handled properly, but the effect of their performance was quite the opposite. The most unnerving fact: five of the seven men died from gunshot wounds in the head. Six of the seven had been shot and killed in a single 9-ft. by 11-ft. bedroom. Afterward, only one gun was found. When asked how the aim of the TACT officers could be so accurate in a darkened house full of tear gas and smoke, Police Director John Holt explained that...
Both papers believe that they are locked in a struggle for nothing less than survival. Moreover, says Free Press Executive Editor David Lawrence, 40, "the victor would be highly profitable." As a result, the News and the Free Press raid each other's staffs, scoff at or steal each other's stories, even copy each other's promotional gimmicks. When the Free Press started handing out copies to breakfasters at McDonald's, the News arranged a giveaway deal with Burger Chef...