Word: raided
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...inventory was fairly typical for a drug smuggler's warehouse: guns, airplane fuel tanks, maps of landing fields from Miami to Indiana. But Broward County, Fla., sheriff's deputies turned up a disagreeable surprise during their raid: a 62-page list of supposedly secret radio frequencies, including channels used by the U.S. Customs Service, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the FBI and even Ronald Reagan's limousine. In the wake of that discovery, Arizona Senator Dennis DeConcini last week ordered up a survey of all the agencies to determine the cost of making Government transmissions safe from snoopers...
...publicity given to such commando feats as the 1976 Israeli raid at Entebbe and West Germany's 1977 rescue operation at Mogadishu, Somalia, may have inflated expectations. The fact is that such methods heighten the risk to hostages. According to a 1977 study by the California-based Rand Corp., 79% of all hostage deaths in terrorist situations occur during rescues. Says Uri Ra'anan, a professor at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy: "The most difficult and risky type of operation is a rescue mission. It is the most likely to lead to loss of life...
...stolen-cocaine case began last May, when Miami officers seized 850 lbs. of "nose candy" in a raid on a lobster boat. Trouble was, the raiding party had been informed the load would be 1,000 lbs. The trail of the missing 150 lbs. of coke, worth $2 million, led to former Officers Felix Beruvides and Armando Lopez, who had recently been fired from the force when they refused to take mandatory urinalysis tests that would have indicated whether they were drug users. Police sources said the two rogue cops had boarded the boat before the raid and made...
...observed a top-ranking U.S. intelligence official. "It was an attack aimed against them, and they will not let this go by." One possible target is Abu Nidal's main base at Tripoli, Libya. He is also reported to have a base on the outskirts of Damascus. A retaliatory raid there would seriously challenge the Syrian air force...
After interrogating the two terrorists still alive after the Vienna raid, Austrian police began a search for a fourth conspirator, who they say gave the three gunmen weapons and instructions at the city's Hilton Hotel shortly before the attack began. Police also found a receipt at the Hilton cafeteria for four breakfasts--coffee, rolls and eggs--that the terrorists appear to have consumed that morning, and forensic tests of the contents of the dead gunman's stomach corresponded to that fare. The Austrians were grimly discreet as they pressed their investigation, taking care to avoid the glare of unwelcome...