Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...case took interest and importance from the fact that Holohan's death resulted in North Italian Communists' getting thousands of guns which backed their bid for political control of the area after the war. Some of these arms are still turning up when police raid the secret arsenals of the underground Communist army...
What finally woke up the trusting Indonesians was a raid in force one night early this month on police stations in Tanjon Priok, Jakarta's vital port area. It was carried out by 100 terrorists, carrying red flags and wearing hammer & sickle armbands incongruously decorated with the Picasso "dove of peace." They were after arms. After an all-night fight, they were finally beaten back...
...stoutly Conservative residents of San Pedro de Jagua knew well that their homes might be struck next. Children chattered fearfully about Tulio Bautista and other leaders of la chuzma (or "bandits," as the Liberal raiders are known). Early this year San Pedro's citizens organized a raid-warning system among the outlying plantations and ranches. Any farmer who spotted bandits coming was to sound the alarm by setting off a dynamite bomb...
Circle of Danger (Joan Harrison; United Artists) sets Ray Milland down in Britain as an American who suspects that his brother's wartime death in a Commando raid was really the result of foul play. Milland's hunt for the killer takes him to the Welsh coal pits, the highlands of Scotland, the English countryside, the streets of London. The tour has genuine atmosphere, but the story lacks pace and imagination, and gains no lift from Mil-land's romantic side trip with Britain's Patricia...
...Cairo Conferences; of a heart attack; in Greenock, Scotland. Following four years as ambassador to Nationalist China's wartime capital, Chungking, he was sent to Moscow in 1942 for the war years, once spent two congenial hours with Stalin in a Kremlin bomb shelter during a Nazi air raid. His last assignment before retiring to his farm in Scotland: Ambassador...