Word: raid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other villagers taken in the raid remain missing...
...want of a standard term, the doctor on the case called the delivery a "Caesarean section by explosion." It occurred last July in Beirut, during an Israeli air raid on the Fakhani Street P.L.O. offices, when Palestine's mother, nine months pregnant, rushed from her apartment house in an effort to escape the bombs. No one is certain what happened next, but when the bombing stopped, Mrs. Halaby was found dead in the rubble. Three meters away, still enveloped in the placenta, lay her new little girl...
...move was organized with all the boldness, secrecy and speed of an Israeli commando raid-and it had the same kind of impact. Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, still recovering from a three-week-old hip fracture, suddenly emerged from his hospital bed early last week to appear in a wheelchair in the Knesset. There he brusquely announced that his government would make into law what Israel has long accomplished in fact: the takeover of the strategic Golan Heights, 444 sq. mi. of rocky terrain captured from Syria during the Six-Day War of 1967. Said Begin: "We are talking...
...Cabinet meeting earlier endorsed the unconditional freeing of 39 of the 44 mercenaries, who were warned to keep a low profile and not to discuss the coup attempt. The other five, including the raid's leader, Colonel Michael ("Mad Mike") Hoare, 62, a veteran mercenary who achieved renown of a sort in the Congo during the '60s, got off lightly. Instead of being charged with hijacking, which could have brought a mandatory sentence of five to 30 years, the five were accused of kidnaping, a lesser crime with no mandatory penalty. Moreover, the charge may not stick, since...
...were paraded for a programmed press conference. Fated for a show trial and under heavy guard, they wore handcuffs that bit into their wrists. To no one's surprise, they accused former Seychelles President James Mancham, exiled after René's successful 1977 coup, of arranging the raid. Mancham denied the charge, but his denial was damaged when one of the arrested mercenaries was found to have a tape recording of his voice intended for broadcast after a successful coup...