Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Raids in the Backlands. Not every guerrilla band in Latin America is controlled by Castro; to think so would attribute far too much importance to him. But most of them fight in his name and with his methods. In Venezuela, hardly a week goes by that the Castroite FALN terrorists do not shoot a cop in Caracas, dynamite an oil pipeline, or raid some remote village. Last week one band clashed with government troops 200 miles south of Caracas, and when the shooting was over two guerrillas and two soldiers were dead. In neighboring Colombia, long troubled by a siege...
...EMPEROR OF ICE-CREAM, by Brian Moore. A tough, uncompromising novel about a very young man who learns the value of self-respect by daring to meet the crises caused by an air raid during World War II. Author Moore (The Luck of Ginger Coffey) casts a cold eye on society but warms it with Irish...
...Force decree tightening control over some 200 "free-strike zones" at which pilots had been free to blast away at will. Henceforth FAC planes will patrol each of the known Viet Cong zones, pinpoint strikes within them as in the rest of South Viet Nam. A B-52 raid originally planned for the big allied sweep of the Ben Cat area fortnight ago (TIME, Sept. 24) was canceled on the outside chance that some stray bombs might hit uninvolved villages. And in an area west of Saigon, undirected artillery fire was banned-because civilians, despite orders to stay out, persisted...
...adult world's destruction. "Come on, Hitler, blow up city hall" cries a leftist friend. "And Queen's University!" shrieks Gavin But in a qualm of conscience, he rushes back to the hospital for a 24-hour stint in the morgue, identifying and coffining the raid victims. Half-potted on hospital whisky, he grinds through the grisly work in a manner that wins admiration from doctors, medical students and even from his girl friend Sally. At the raid's end, Gavin no longer hears the angels; instead, he hears a calm new voice within himself. He might...
...journey had its bits of humor: Captain Egorov, commander of a repatriation camp, met the news of an imminent general inspection by swathing the Augean public latrine in an impenetrable tangle of barbed wire. The journey also had its vestiges of horror: Daniele, a sole survivor of a Nazi raid on the Venice ghetto, put bread on the ground before starving German prisoners of war and forced them to crawl on all fours to get it. Slowly, by fits and starts, Levi reawakened to reality. From a peremptory Greek companion, he learned basic survival tactics: "He who has shoes...