Word: raid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...speaks Haitian Creole, was informed by telephone within minutes of a tense beating incident at the Krome Avenue detention center. Photographer Harry Mattison arrived in Liberty City just after police had shot a gun-wielding Cuban. Caribbean Bureau Chief William McWhirter accompanied an undercover narcotics squad for a raid on the leaders of a $25 million drug ring. Washington Correspondent Jonathan Beaty, who joined the Miami staff to report on the billions in narcotics money washing over South Florida, talked with young men just back from high-speed runs in souped-up boats loaded with marijuana and cocaine. "The journalist...
Predictably, the strikers were outraged, calling the raid "an Entebbe-style operation with eight helmeted and masked scabs aboard." In a postraid broadside, the shop stewards' committee warned that other companies might employ similar commando raids against their workers. Said the stewards: "The lesson is that no matter how successful your picket, this method will be used to break strikes, break unions and send us all back to the 1930s...
...House of Commons, Charles Morris, Openshaw's Labor M.P., blasted the raid, which was conducted with the cooperation of local police and air-traffic controllers, as too hazardous for the local citizenry. Said he: "I am most concerned about an operation which could have endangered lives. The use of helicopters in an industrial dispute is unprecedented...
After the raid, the British government claimed that it was clean. Said a spokesman for the naval yard that had ordered the machinery: "We were certainly not involved in this James Bond escapade. The motors were overdue, but we were not pressing the firm for delivery. We have no idea who did it." A spokesman for the Ministry of Defense added, "We didn't know anything like this was planned...
...growing list of companies in ailing industries like steel and autos have been hungrily eyeing the new regulations. But companies with poor credit ratings may not find the leasing razzmatazz so easy to arrange. Wary that the regulations could wind up leading to a wholesale corporate raid on the Treasury, officials in the department last week issued temporary rules that could sharply restrict, if not actually prevent, a number of firms with low credit ratings from taking advantage of the leasing opportunities. That could prove bad news for companies like Chrysler, Ford and International Harvester, which have all been looking...