Word: raid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...particular, Haig may clash again with Weinberger on policy toward the Middle East. He argued successfully last year that the U.S. should not impose the tough sanctions against Israel that Weinberger wanted after the Israeli raid against the nuclear reactor in Iraq. Haig feared that so blunt a tone would make Begin's government less receptive to American persuasion. But Haig's own policy of promoting a "strategic consensus" among the U.S., Israel and moderate Arab states against Soviet penetration of the area has gone nowhere, and the Secretary of State no longer uses the phrase. Haig...
...Laura Ashley fantasy, becomes a late-Victorian artifact, like a sprite from a Julia Margaret Cameron photograph. A woman who wanted a certain modernity of fashion to complement a contemporary pregnancy, who wanted to be comfortable with her appearance and her condition, pretty much had to improvise, scrounge or raid her husband's wardrobe...
...disappear each month. Last week, for example, at least 19 people were killed during an antiguerrilla sweep by the Salvadoran army through a poor suburb of the nation's capital, San Salvador. According to the army, the victims were subversives who put up an armed resistance to the raid. But most independent observers agree that the victims were unarmed residents who were taken from their homes by the soldiers and shot. Many of the corpses were clad only in their underwear...
...crossfire between the opposing forces is likely to get worse before it gets better. For one thing, the guerrillas are becoming more active. Last week the so-called Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front launched attacks on Salvadoran military positions in various parts of the country. In one raid, the government claimed that the guerrillas killed 400 civilians, in addition to twelve members of a local army outpost. But when journalists were taken to a mass grave of victims of the attack, they discovered that it was not big enough to hold more than a dozen people. Diplomatic sources estimate that...
Then, when Sharon learned a week ago of the six-man P.L.O. infiltration of the West Bank, he swung into action. At a press conference that the daily Ha'aretz described as "overdramatized," defense ministry officials declared since participants in the raid had been trained in Lebanon, the P.L.O. in effect had violated the July 1981 truce in southern Lebanon. As government radio and television commentators cried out Sharon against the summoned P.L.O. "provocation," Sharon summoned Eitan and a small group of generals and intelligence officers. Israeli tanks and troops were al ready moving north. Sharon decided that...